Little is known about the lords of Oyace, and that little is not flattering: it seems that for bad conduct they were deposed and their fortified house razed. The tower remains, the Tornalla, octagonal, mentioned in twelfth-century documents, and it is on the coat of arms too.
Below the village the Buthier, gathering the meltwater of the Grandes Murailles glacier, has carved the Betenda gorge: a stone bridge of 1688 crosses it, heir to a wooden one of 1352. On 5 August the 225 residents walk up in pilgrimage to the sanctuary of Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, at Verdonaz, 2,317 metres. The library is named after Aimé Chenal, the man who put the Valdôtain patois into a dictionary.
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📅 Every year, on 29 September
On 29 September Oyace celebrates Saint Michael the Archangel; on 5 August the village instead holds the pilgrimage of Our Lady of the Snows to the Verdonaz sanctuary.
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Outside Oyace, but an easy day trip away.
