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MONT SAINT-JULIEN AND ITS CHAPELS

ROUTE INFORMATION: ‘Mont Saint-Julien’ mountain [1384 m]

NUMERICAL CODE: 10B

STARTING POINT: Le côteau [1230 m]

GRADIENT: 154 m (Mont Saint-Julien’s peak)

TIME TAKEN: 30 minutes to San Grato Chapel; further 10 minutes to Saint-Julien chapel

SCALE OF DIFFICULTY: E 

MAP: view the map - download the PDF map

MOBILE NETWORK COVERAGE: TIM (easy conversation)

ROUTE NOTES: This route is not dangerous and mountain boots aren’t necessary. It is a lovely and easy route where you can admire wonderful landscapes.

Saint Grat Chapel [View the map]

Park the car in a space along the road, then go on foot for a few dozen meters along the rough track and then take the path. The close contact with nature that this route offers is both pleasurable and relaxing.

In about 30 minutes you will reach the top of Saint-Julien mountain, upon which sits the Saint Grato chapel, an octagonal building surrounded by forest. Both the outer and inner walls of this building are simple and lacking in decorations. Usually you can’t visit the chapel so you can admire it only through the windows. Built in the eighteenth century, this chapel was consecrated in the name of Saint Grat (Saint Grato). San Grato is the patron saint of natural disasters and for this reason is much revered in the Valle D’Aosta.