Chamois
Chamois is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy. Chamois is the only municipality in Italy not reachable by motorized vehicles.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 93 residents
- Description: Italian municipality in the Aosta Valley
- Also known as: “Chamois, Aosta Valley”
Places of Interest
Highlights include San Pantaleone and Mount Tantané.
San Pantaleone
Church
Chamois is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy. Chamois is the only municipality in Italy not reachable by motorized vehicles.
Mount Tantané
Peak
Photo: Plumbago Capensis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Tantané is a 2734 metre high mountain of the Pennine Alps, in the municipality of La Magdeleine, in Aosta Valley, Italy. It lies between the Ayas Valley to the east and the Valtournenche Valley to the west. Mount Tantané is situated 3½ km southeast of Chamois.
Town hall of La Magdeleine
Town hall
Photo: Plumbago Capensis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Town hall of La Magdeleine is situated 3 km south of Chamois.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cheneil and Valtournenche.
Cheneil
Hamlet
Photo: Cactus26, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cheneil is a hamlet, which is situated 3½ km northeast of Chamois.
Valtournenche
Village
Photo: qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0.
Valtournenche is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of north-western Italy, 1,500 m above the sea level. It is named after and covers the upper side of the Valtournenche, a valley on the left side of the Dora Baltea, from Châtillon to the Matterhorn. Valtournenche is situated 4½ km north of Chamois.
Singlin
Hamlet
Photo: Bichaccio, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Singlin is a hamlet, which is situated 6 km north of Chamois.
Chamois
- Categories: commune of Italy and car-free place
- Location: Chamois, Aosta Valley, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Chamois” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شامواه (بلدة)”
- Arabic: “شامواه”
- Armenian: “Շամուա”
- Arpitan: “Chamouès”
- Basque: “Chamois”
- Bavarian: “Chamois”
- Belarusian: “Шамуа (Вале-д’Аоста)”
- Belarusian: “Шамуа”
- Breton: “Chamois”
- Bulgarian: “Шамоа”
- Catalan: “Chamois”
- Cebuano: “Chamois”
- Chechen: “Шамуа (Валле-д’Аоста)”
- Chechen: “Шамуа”
- Chinese: “卡莫伊斯”
- Chinese: “沙穆瓦”
- Dutch: “Chamois”
- Esperanto: “Chamois”
- Finnish: “Chamois”
- French: “Chamois”
- German: “Chamois”
- Greek: “Σαμουά (Κοιλάδα της Αόστα)”
- Greek: “Σαμουά”
- Hungarian: “Chamois”
- Interlingua: “Chamois”
- Irish: “Chamois, Aosta Valley”
- Italian: “Chamois”
- Japanese: “シャモワ”
- Kazakh: “Шамуа”
- Kurdish: “Chamois, Aosta Valley”
- Kurdish: “Chamois”
- Ladin: “Chamois”
- Latin: “Camosium”
- Ligurian: “Chamois”
- Lombard: “Chamois”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Chamois”
- Malay: “Chamois, Itali”
- Neapolitan: “Chamois”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chamois”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chamois”
- Persian: “شاموئیس”
- Piemontese: “Chamois”
- Polish: “Chamois”
- Portuguese: “Chamois”
- Romanian: “Chamois”
- Russian: “Шамуа”
- Serbian: “Chamois”
- Serbian: “Шамоа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chamois, Valle d’Aosta”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chamois”
- Sicilian: “Chamois”
- South Azerbaijani: “شاموئیس”
- Spanish: “Chamois”
- Swedish: “Chamois”
- Swiss German: “Chamois”
- Tagalog: “Chamois, Lambak Aosta”
- Tagalog: “Chamois”
- Tatar: “Шамуа (Валле-д’Аоста)”
- Tatar: “Шамуа”
- Tosk Albanian: “Chamois”
- Turkish: “Chamois”
- Ukrainian: “Шамуа”
- Uzbek: “Chamois”
- Venetian: “Chamois”
- Vietnamese: “Chamois, Thung lũng Aosta”
- Volapük: “Chamois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chamois, Italya”
- “Chamois”
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