Gran Paradiso National Park visitors centre - "Water and Biodiversity"
Resorts: Valsavarenche
Summer 2024
- June: Saturdays and Sundays and holidays
- July and August: from Wednesday to Sunday and holidays
- September: Saturday and Sunday
The Center is always open with guided tours at the following times:
- Weekdays: 9.30am - 10.45am
- Weekends, holidays and Fridays in August: 9.30am - 10.45am - 2.30pm - 3.45pm
- Free: children up to 10 years, disabled and companion and residents in the municipalities on the Aosta Valley side of the Park.
Reservation is not required, however it is always recommended and becomes mandatory for groups of more than 10 people. Visits have an indicative maximum number of 25 people.
Guided tours of the center are organized according to timetables and visitors must arrive on time and independently at the entrance to the centre.
It will not be possible to enter once the visit has begun.
Allow 20 minutes on foot from the Rovenaud car park to the entrance to the Centre.
For information and reservations:
acqua.biodiversita@pngp.it
Tel. +39 0165 905794 (on opening days of the Centre)
+39 347 4302875 (Monday to Friday from 9am to 12pm)
The Visitors Centre Water and Biodiversity in Rovenaud is dedicated to scientific research and environmental education about the preservation of watery ecosystems and of otters.
The centre, in a well-preserved ecosystem, hosts a nice exhibition and proposes visit routes inside and outside, with videos and aquaria in order to be truly ‘immersed’ in a part of the Park where everything is connected with water.
This section of the Park hosts some otters in partial freedom. Once this species was free and present here, but today it almost disappeared because of persecutions and environmental transformations made by men.
Otters, being at the top of the food chain, is the symbol of the problems linked to the preservation of watery environments.
Thus, the visit to the centre outlines the importance of preservation and of the balance between men and environment.
Note - this information is not directly connected to the Cammino Balteo path but it is part of the Aosta Valley tourist offer.