THE SUMMER AT BONNEVAL-SUR-ARC
THE VANOISE PARK
The Vanoise Park, created in 1963, was the first national park
in France and is located between Maurienne and Tarentaise. It
extends over 28 villages and is made up of forests, mountain pastures,
lakes, rocks, glaciers and conceals a multitude of splendours,
as much on the faunal and geological levels as the floral.
The fauna includes the most important French
colony of Alpine mountain goats, known as ibexes, as well as chamois
or small deer, and not forgetting the marmot and all the various
species of birds.
There is a diversified range of flora which
is made up of more than a thousand species. When rocks are present
they are many and various.
