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'{{Copy edit|date=March 2021}} {{Infobox Italian comune | name = Gressoney-La-Trinité | official_name = Comune di Gressoney-La-Trinité<br />Commune de Gressoney-La-Trinité<br />Gemeinde Gressoney-La-Trinité | native_name = {{native name|wae|Greschòney Drifaltigkeit}} | image_skyline = GressoneyLT veduta.jpg | imagesize = | image_alt = | image_caption = Centre of the town | image_shield = Blason ville It Gressoney-La-Trinité (AO).svg | shield_size = 75px | image_map = | map_alt = | map_caption = | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | coordinates = {{coord|45|50|N|7|50|E|region:IT_type:city(304)|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_footnotes = | region = {{RegioneIT|sigla=VAO}} | province = none | frazioni = | mayor_party = | mayor = | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = 65 | population_footnotes = | population_total = 304 | population_as_of = 31 December 2006 | pop_density_footnotes = | population_demonym = Gressonards | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = 1635 | twin1 = | twin1_country = | saint = | day = | postal_code = 11020 | area_code = 0125 | website = {{official website|http://www.comune.gressoneylatrinite.ao.it/}} | footnotes = }} '''Gressoney-La-Trinité''' (Gressoney {{lang-wae|Greschòney Drifaltigkeit}} or {{lang|wae|Creschnau Drifaltigkeit}}; {{lang-frp|Gressonèy-La-Trinità}}) is a [[town]] and ''[[comune]]'' in the Val de Gressoney, part of the [[Aosta Valley]] region of [[Northwest Italy|northwestern]] [[Italy]]. It features one of the most scenic ski resorts in the [[Aosta Valley]]. ==Geography== At an [[elevation]] of {{convert|1627|m}} [[Height above mean sea level|above sea level]], Gressoney-La-Trinité is the highest village in the Val de Gressoney, the valley of the small river [[Lys (Dora Baltea)|Lys]] which is fed by the Lys glacier. The town lies at the confluence of the Tronto River and the smaller river Castellano and is Lyn in Ascoli Piceno - Le Marche Regions of Italy.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gressoney-La-Trinité {{!}} Aosta Valley|url=http://www.lovevda.it/en/database/3/tourist-resorts/aosta-valley/gressoney-la-trinite/391|access-date=2021-03-20|website=www.lovevda.it|language=en-GB}}</ref> ==History== {{Unreferenced-section|date=March 2021}} [[file:Greschoneititsch.jpg|thumb|left|Inscription in German Walser dedicated to Henrich Welf, a native of Gressoney-La-Trinité, president of the '' Walser Kulturzentrum. '']] [[File:GresTrinFeuerwehr.jpg|thumb|left|Garage door of the local fire service in La-Trinité. The door is labeled in the three official languages: German, Italian and French.]] The area was settled by <ref>the [[Walser]] people from the [[Valais]] who left behind characteristic "Walser houses,"</ref> or ''Stadel:'' buildings made of wood and stone sitting on short mushroom-shaped pillars.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Walser architectural style — Willkommen auf WalserAlps|url=http://www.walser-alps.eu/culture/building-methods|access-date=2021-03-23|website=www.walser-alps.eu}}</ref> Historically, Gressoney-Saint-Jeane and Gressoney-La-Trinité have been two separate. ''[[commune]]s''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History - Municipality of Gressoney-La-Trinité|url=https://www.comune.gressoneylatrinite.ao.it/en-us/vivere-il-comune/storia|access-date=2021-03-23|website=www.comune.gressoneylatrinite.ao.it}}</ref> From 1928 until 1946, the two were united into one commune, officially named [[gressoney (AO)|Gressoney]], which from 1939 onward was [[Italianization|Italianized]] as Gressonei. After WWII, the two former communes were reconstituted.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History - Municipality of Gressoney-La-Trinité|url=https://www.comune.gressoneylatrinite.ao.it/en-us/vivere-il-comune/storia|access-date=2021-03-23|website=www.comune.gressoneylatrinite.ao.it}}</ref> == Walser culture and language == Gressoney-La-Trinité and [[Gressoney-Saint-Jean]] form a [[Walser German]] cultural unity is known as ''Greschòney'' or ''Kreschnau'' in ''Greschoneytitsch'' (or simply ''Titsch''), the local Walser German dialect, or ''Kressenau'' in German, still spoken as of 2011.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130929004545/http://www.caroline-fink.ch/_texte_files/ad_2011_06_03-1.pdf Flurnamen ein weisser Fleck.] Letter by Rolf Marti, Gstaad, in: Die Alpen, June 2011, p.29</ref> An example of Greschòneytitsch: {| class="wikitable" ! Walser German ! German ! English |- | Endsche Attò<br /> das béscht em Hémmel,<br /> dass héilege sígge Dín Noame.<br /> Chéeme Dín Herrschaft.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vaterunser_zimbrisch.JPG |title=Das Vaterunser auf Walserisch (Greschòney) |year=2006 |publisher=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitungs |language=wae|access-date=2011-05-13}}</ref><br /> | Vater unser<br /> der Du bist im Himmel,<br /> geheiligt werde Dein Name.<br /> Dein Reich komme. | Our Father<br /> in heaven,<br /> hallowed be your name.<br /> Your kingdom come, |} == References == {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.gressoneyonline.it www.gressoneyonline.it] Official tourism information * [http://www.tourmonterosa.com www.tourmonterosa.com] Tour Monte Rosa - Matterhorn {{Comuni of Aosta Valley}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gressoney-La-Trinite}} [[Category:Cities and towns in Aosta Valley]] [[Category:Ski areas and resorts in Italy]] {{Aosta-geo-stub}}'