Fully

History

Fully was already inhabited in very moved back times. The vestiges and tombs found in Branson, Mazembroz, Chiboz,… are there to prove it.

The rocky outcrop of Follatères was of an strategic importance for the Roman which had installed a military station there.

A few centuries later, Fully, just as Riddes and Leytron, belonged to the chatellery of Saillon (itself dependant on the County of Savoy). As of 1475, the saltery of Branson was attached to the government of Saint-Maurice, following the conquest of Low-Were worth by the High-Valaisans. The seigneuriales families followed one another and this, until in 1602. During this period, the life fulliéraine was harder. The commune bent under the royalties and had, moreover, to support the natural disasters: gullies, floods and the Cholera, of disaster report.

In 1798, takes shape a desire of revival and progress. The first schools are based One also practices the first censuses making it possible to know the names of the villages and hamlets: Fully, Mazembre, Saxony, Chestnut, Branson, Randonnaz, Randonnaz-top, Beudon, Es Larzettes, Buitonnaz, Tschiéboz, Planuiz, Neulouz, Tassonier, Drill It, the Fountain, Es Tassonnaires, Mayens Latan.

The 19th century was marked by the political events (Movement of Young Switzerland) and the damming up of the the Rhone. For this one, Fully was seen allotting more than six kilometers of ditches to be built, which it did of 1862 with 1879. During this period, Fully also knew two very important floods: in 1871 and 1897.

It is besides at that time (1867 exactly) which the population of Branson faces an cholera epidemic. A nun, sister Louise Bron, looks after the patients by leaving his life there. In its memory, the Hearth for elderly bears her name today.

1917 represents a historical date for the communes of Saillon and Fully: 400 hectares of Marais are returned to the culture. From 1921, the producers pass to the mode of intensive cultures in the plain, which will become soon an important orchard and market-gardening.

Demography

Here evolution of the population of Fully:

Sorniot

Sorniot is located on the tops of Fully

The road is stretched on the slope fulliérain.

The hamlets are followed while the sight emerges on the plain of the Rhone: Euloz, Buitonnaz, Chiboz… It is still tarred. One leaves then on an overland route: Randonnaz, Lousine and Erié, where the road for the vehicles stops. Place aux paths. Sorniot direction and its famous lakes.

One hour of walk on a too stiff layout neither nor too dish which makes it possible to embrace prestigious tops at a single glance. Massive of Combins, little by little, it is the Mont Blanc which is revealed by successive waves, with the liking of the buttresses of the Grand Chavalard. Thousand five hundred meters lower, it is the plain of the Rhone.

At the end of the road, one suddenly discovers Sorniot and the lower lake, blotti in a natural circus, the “hollow of Sorniot”.

One finds there some country cottages, a mountain pasture, a summer camp, the hut.

A small extra effort makes it possible to discover the higher lake, the “big lake”, in opposition to the “small lake” of the hollow. Water is cold and they are especially the banks of this artificial reserve of 4 million cubic meters which attract the amateurs of grills and fishermen.

The water of Sorniot finishes in Fully. Before the accident of October 2000 which broke the pressure pipe, the electric factory EOS located in plain produced approximately 12 million kWh per year.

But the natural advance of water of Sorniot is quieter: after an infiltration in a vast karstic system, they arise a few kilometers more in the east, Saillon, before returning in Fully by the channel.

Fishing

Supported by the friendly one of the fishermen for a few years, the piscicultural management of the lower and higher lakes of Fully has borne fruits: rainbow trouts, Fario, Cristivomer abound in this water considered for fishing with the fly.

Events

During October in Fully the Fête is held of the Sweet chestnut , festival whose central theme is the sweet chestnut, " fruit" (more precisely seed of the bug) emblematic of Fully. During these two days of festivities, it is possible to taste typical mets. With the program: Brisolée , tart with sweet chestnut and sweet chestnut liquors, without forgetting cheese and the white light local wine of the country. The whole is to be discovered throughout the market which occupies during these two days the streets of the village.

Many encaveurs produce there a wine named the Petite Arvine , which is the local speciality.

Festival

Fully under Roc
Fully Moves (festival of youth)

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