At Diémoz, a hamlet of Verrayes, stood the tenth milestone out of Aosta: ad Decimum ab Augusta lapidem, and that is where the village name comes from. A Roman mansio stood there, and there too a Roman sarcophagus turned up, reused centuries later as the basin of a fountain.
Scholars disagree about the name of the comune: some derive it from verus aer, good air and climate, some from vervactum, land left fallow, and some, on the most widely accepted reading, from vers-ayes, towards the waters in old French. Prehistoric settlement is documented across the land of its 1,344 residents; the winters stay hard and snowy, the summers pleasant.
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📅 Every year, on 11 November
Verrayes celebrates Saint Martin of Tours on 11 November, with the parish church dedicated to him in the hamlet of Église; the town also holds two local festivals of its own, the Féta de la sarieula and the thyme festival in mid-May in the hamlet of Rapy.
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Outside Verrayes, but an easy day trip away.
