The patron of Gignod is Saint Hilary, celebrated on 13 January in the church that bears his name.
Every year, on 16 August, a procession climbs up to the Punta Chaligne, at 2608 metres, in thanksgiving from the survivors of the 17th-century plague, which decimated the population: a procession also sets out from the hillside localities of Aosta. At carnival, instead, the Landzette parade, the traditional masks of the Coumba Freida — the area of Valpelline and the Gran San Bernardo valley — inspired by the uniform of the Napoleonic troops that sowed terror as they passed through in May 1800. To exorcise that event, the population elaborated over the centuries a colourful parody of those military uniforms, which on carnival day travels noisily and festively through all the towns of the two valleys.
