The Mongiovetta, the stretch of main road that climbs above the village, was opened in 1771 at the expense of the Duchy of Aosta: king Charles Emmanuel III authorised the work to help trade and the thermal waters of Saint-Vincent, and a stone above the first hairpins still records it.
The comune stretches from the 370 metres of Plout to the 2,174 of Mont Lyan, across both sides of the valley: a position that for centuries made it an obligatory passage towards France and Switzerland, and that explains the castles of Chenal and Saint-Germain. The fields of its 1,831 residents are watered by the Rû d'Arlaz, cut in the fifteenth century to bring the Evançon onto the sunlit slopes.
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📅 Every year, on 8 September
On 8 September Montjovet celebrates the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary: the town has two parish churches, one at Berriat and one at Saint-Germain, and both appear on its coat of arms.
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