Ayer
Ayer is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. An independent municipality before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie to form the municipality of Anniviers.- Type: Village with 681 residents
- Description: village in Anniviers, canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Ayer VS” and “Ayer, Switzerland”
- Postal code: 3961
Places of Interest
Highlights include Corne de Sorebois and Les 3 Caves blanches.
Corne de Sorebois
Scenic viewpoint
The Corne de Sorebois is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It is located near Zinal in Valais. Sorebois is the name of an alpine pasture on the east slopes of the mountain. Corne de Sorebois is situated 3½ km south of Ayer.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mission and Grimentz.
Grimentz
Village
Grimentz is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. An independent municipality before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring Ayer, Chandolin, Saint Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie to form the municipality of Anniviers.
Saint-Jean
Village
Saint-Jean is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. An independent municipality before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint-Luc and Vissoie to form the municipality of Anniviers.
Ayer
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Anniviers, Sierre District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.17877° or 46° 10′ 44″ north
Longitude
7.60327° or 7° 36′ 12″ east
Population
681
Elevation
1,457 metres (4,780 feet)
Open location code
8FR95JH3+G8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arpitan to Western Panjabi—“Ayer” goes by many names.
- Arpitan: “Ayèr”
- Asturian: “Ayer”
- Cebuano: “Ayer”
- Chinese: “艾耶爾”
- Dutch: “Ayer”
- French: “Ayer”
- German: “Ayer VS”
- German: “Ayer”
- Irish: “Ayer”
- Italian: “Ayer”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ayer”
- Piemontese: “Ayer”
- Portuguese: “Ayer”
- Romansh: “Ayer”
- Spanish: “Ayer”
- Swedish: “Ayer, Valais”
- Swedish: “Ayer”
- Turkish: “Ayer”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ayer”
- Volapük: “Ayer”
- Western Panjabi: “آیر”
- “Ayer”
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Highlights include Chapelle des Morasses and space public du Couvert de Mission.
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