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Government Building of the Canton of Valais

Government Building of the Canton of Valais

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Government Building of the Canton of Valais

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Location: Sitten, Sion, Valais, Switzerland

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October 7, 2021

History of Valais
The history of Valais covers the development of the Rhone Valley above Lake Geneva since prehistoric and early history. Settlements have been documented in the large Alpine valley since the Mesolithic period. During antiquity, the land, previously inhabited by Celtic peoples, formed the Roman province of Vallis Poenina. In the fifth century AD it became dependent on the Kingdom of Burgundy and in the seventh century on the Frankish Empire.
In the ninth century, an Alemannic ethnic group coming over the northern Alpine passes settled in the upper part of the region, which has since been divided into two language areas, the Romanesque-Franco-Provençal Lower Valais and the German-speaking Upper Valais. Over time, the language border emerged, which since the late Middle Ages has been on a line west of Zermatt, Turtmann, Salgesch and Leukerbad.
The independent regional history of Valais begins with the granting of county rights in the Rhone Valley from Martigny upwards by the Burgundian King Rudolf III. to Bishop Hugo of Sitten in 999. Part of the Holy Roman Empire since 1032, the Valais came under the control of the Counts of Savoy in the 11th century. In several armed conflicts, the growing communities of the upper part of the country, organized since the 14th century in the tithes and represented by the district council, united with the Bishop of Sitten, pushed back the Savoy rule until, during the Burgundian Wars in 1475, they were able to conquer their castlanies down to Saint-Maurice and organize them as subject territory. In 1536, the Chablais to the left of the Rhone as far as Lake Geneva was added.
After the French Revolution, the people of Monthey and Martigny rose up against the rule of the Upper Valais in 1798 and in 1799 France conquered the whole of Valais by force and in 1802 established the formally independent "Republic of Valais", which was incorporated into the French state in 1810 as the Département du Simplon. In 1815, Valais followed the recommendation of the Congress of Vienna to join the Swiss Confederation. Since 1848, the canton has belonged to the new Swiss federal state.
With the expansion of the pass roads over the Simplon (1805) and the Great St. Bernard (1905) and the construction of the railway tunnels through the Simplon (1905) and the Lötschberg (1913), Valais became an important modern transport corridor through the Alps. New industrial regions emerged in the easily accessible area, and the high mountains became a scene of mountaineering from the 19th century onwards and of widespread tourism in the 20th century. Several railway lines (Furka, Gornergrat, Châtelard) and many cable cars were built for tourist traffic, which became a major branch of the economy in the Alpine canton. Several major corrections to the course of the Rhone put an end to the previously often severe flooding of the wide valley floor and allowed the cultivation of large fruit crops on the land. In the 20th century, energy companies from all over Switzerland built powerful hydroelectric power stations in the mountain valleys, which further increased the development and economic development of some regions of the Valais. Road construction in the mountains and the unexpectedly lengthy construction of the Rhone motorway remain a major challenge for the canton to this day. Since the second half of the 20th century, the heavy construction activity and urban sprawl have led to difficult problems for spatial planning and the maintenance of the infrastructure.
Text / Source: Wikipedia
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