Great St Bernard Hospice
A hospice and hostel for travellers on the Great St Bernard Pass, named after its founder Bernard of Menthon and kept by a community of canons regular ever since. It is the home of the St Bernard dogs, bred here to help find travellers lost in the snow.
- Where
- Bourg-Saint-Pierre, Valais, Switzerland
- Grade
- Local gem
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site
- Coordinates
- 45.8689, 7.1706
Get the Great St Bernard Hospice stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Great St Bernard Hospice. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Valais volume with your photos and a note.
Near Great St Bernard Hospice
Skyway Monte Bianco 18 km
A cable car that climbs from Entrèves, near Courmayeur, to Pointe Helbronner on the southern side of the Mont Blanc massif. Opened in 2015, its cabins turn slowly as they rise, giving a full circle of glaciers and peaks on the way up.
Mer de Glace 19 km
The longest glacier in France, a river of ice 7.5 kilometres long on the northern slopes of the Mont Blanc massif. A rack railway climbs from Chamonix to Montenvers above it, and an ice cave is cut into the glacier each year for visitors to walk through.
Aiguille du Midi 22 km
A granite needle of 3,842 metres in the Mont Blanc massif, reached by cable car straight from Chamonix. The top station has terraces facing Mont Blanc and a glass box, the Step into the Void, hanging over a sheer drop.
Mont Blanc 24 km
The highest mountain in the Alps at about 4,807 metres, its snow dome on the border between France and Italy. It rises above Chamonix, and the climb to the top usually takes two days, with a night in a mountain hut.
Le Brévent 27 km
A 2,525 metre summit in the Aiguilles Rouges, facing Mont Blanc across the Chamonix valley. Cable cars run to the top, and its cliffs are a launching point for paragliders and wingsuit flyers dropping towards the valley.
Grande Dixence Dam 30 km
A concrete wall 285 metres high at the head of the Val d'Hérémence, the tallest gravity dam in the world and the tallest dam in Europe. It holds back the Lac des Dix, whose water feeds four power stations of the Cleuson-Dixence scheme.
Matterhorn 40 km
A near-symmetrical pyramid of rock on the Swiss and Italian border, rising to 4,478 metres above Zermatt. Often called the mountain of mountains, it has become the emblem of the Alps and is said to be the most photographed peak in the world.
Gran Paradiso National Park 42 km
A national park in the Graian Alps, spread across the Aosta Valley and Piedmont around the Gran Paradiso mountain. It began as a royal hunting ground of King Victor Emmanuel II, protected to save the Alpine ibex from poachers, and ibex still graze its high slopes.
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Questions
Where is Great St Bernard Hospice?
Great St Bernard Hospice is in Bourg-Saint-Pierre, Valais, Switzerland. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Skyway Monte Bianco (18 km), Mer de Glace (19 km), Aiguille du Midi (22 km).
How do I get the Great St Bernard Hospice stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Great St Bernard Hospice and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Valais volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Great St Bernard Hospice before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Valais volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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