The Pierre Gianadda Foundation has transformed the town of Martigny into a world capital of modern art.
Since 1978, over six million people have visited the museum to admire the works of the greatest masters of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Located at the entrance to the Great Saint Bernard Pass - one of the few routes that the Alps allowed to connect Italy and Switzerland - Octodurus had too great a strategic importance to leave the Romans indifferent.
The conquerors who came from the south then made it an imperial village and then even the capital of the province of the Graian and Pennine Alps. Rather agitated centuries followed for this crossroads of people and trade, through which hordes of invaders and armies too often passed, up to that of Napoleon. ...