The final z is not pronounced: Bionaz is said «Bióna». That mark was never a letter but a flourish the clerks of the Kingdom of Sardinia added to names to be stressed on the second-to-last syllable; someone later took it for a z, and it never went away.
This is the northernmost comune of the Aosta Valley and the most glaciated: 15% of its surface, with twenty glaciers, from the 1,490 metres of the village of Places to the 4,171 of the Dent d'Hérens. The 234 residents live in twenty-one villages of the upper Valpelline. In 1877 the abbé Gorret and baron Bich described the local hospitality: the curate kept a couple of beds for those passing through.
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📅 Every year, on 20 July
Bionaz celebrates Saint Margaret on 20 July; her parish church stands in the locality of Plan-de-Veyne, in the municipal territory that holds one of the most important artificial lakes in the Aosta Valley, Lake Place-Moulin.
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