Les Bains De Lavey

For centuries, the St. Maurice Monastery was a stop for pilgrims and travellers on their way to Great St. Bernard. The old abbey treasury houses one of the most important collections of sacred gold work in the world, including several medieval masterpieces such as the great St. Maurice reliquary and the reliquary belonging to the children of St. Sigismond (this dates back to the 12th century). The treasury contains not only historical items, but also priceless local religious and cultural relics

... to discover the origin of the Sel des Alpes, as a family day out, on a school trip, on a corporate outing or with friends. The Bex Salt Mines are now a vast underground labyrinth, several kilometres of which are open to visitors. On this journey of discovery you will see the most spectacular and the most characteristic elements of the various excavation techniques used from when the first gallery was dug out in 1684, right up to modern times.

The Foundation regularly shows temporary exhibitions of artistic importance. Over six million visitors have already been impressed by artworks from private collections and the largest museums in the world, particularly in the following exhibitions: Klee, Goya, Rodin, Giacometti, Schiele, Lautrec, Moore, Modigliani, Claudel, Chagall, Braque, Degas and many others.