Where to sleep: Pontboset

The Le moulin des Aravis holiday farmhouse is located within a historic building which was a sawmill in the seventeenth century.
The holiday farmhouse offers its guests rooms and meals.

The restaurant/hotel is family run with experience which has been passed down over the generations.
The restaurant/hotel is situated close to the ancient historical populated area of the village of Pontboset.
The hotel offers the opportunity to enjoy a relaxing stay where it is possible to participate in activities such as trout fishing, climbing, kayaking and trekking to discover the many rural villages and numerous Alpine huts in the territories of the village.
In the winter season, furthermore, it is possible to participate in cross-country skiing and downhill skiing, closeby in Champorcher.

Together with my husband, we decided to renovate an old ruin, for us and for our three children, in the hamlet of Châteigne, a small rural village where you can still find original buildings made of dry stone and wood.
The village of Châteigne is surrounded by centuries-old chestnut trees and takes its name from the fruit of the latter (the name Châtaigne, in French, means “chestnut”). Later, we decided to renovate the house next to ours, which belonged to my husband’s grandparents, and to make i tinto a guesthouse.
The rooms have been meticulously furnished in order to keep the typical mountain style, with stone and wood finishings, expertly made by local artisans recovering the original materials. We thus restored the old wooden ceilings and reused the wooden planks, for the boiserie of the rooms and bathrooms, and the “lose”(stone slabs) of our roofs. Even the curtains on our windows have been expertly made by recovering the wedding furnishings of our grandparents, again made with the “teila de maïson”, hemp grown and woven manually by our grandmothers during the long and cold winter evenings. You can admire our chestnut woods and the panorama of our mountains from the wooden balconies or comfortably seated on the deckchairs that we have made available to you in the green area in front of the building, where you can relax and rest.
In each room you will find a wonderful a courtesy set by Montiflor, a local company that produces cosmetic products starting from the direct cultivation of medicinal herbs from the Champorcher Valley.

Located at the entrance of the village of Pontboset the “Lou créton di lui” youth hostel was originally an old parish church dating back to1600, recently renovated taking particular care over the original architecture.
In the place in which it stood, in the past century in times of famine, wolves in search of prey were spotted, and this is where the “lou creton di lui” gets its name, meaning “the wolf ridge”.
The building is located close to the town hall opposite the parish church of San Grato. The main façade opens onto the pretty square where the old district begins, characterised by its traditional Valle d’Aosta architecture (Rascard buildings, Grenze, stone fountains).
The structure is surrounded by century-old chestnut trees creating a peaceful atmosphere with occasional bursts of merriment during tourist events organised throughout the year.