Chandolin
Sign in to saveChandolin is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. An independent municipality before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring Ayer, Grimentz, Saint Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie to form the municipality of Anniviers.
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Place details
- Locality
- Anniviers
- Region
- Valais/Wallis
- Country
- Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra
- Population
- 79
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Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Chandolin
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Chandolin - septembre 2022.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- former
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Chandolin COA.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Chandolin Flag.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Valais
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VS
- Swiss town.district
- Sierre
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 3961
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6233
- Swiss town.area
- 16.7
- Swiss town.elevation
- 1936
- Swiss town.population
- 82
- Swiss town.populationof
- December 2002
- Swiss town.popofyear
- 2002
- Swiss town.website
- www.chandolin.ch
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Chandolin is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. An independent municipality before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring Ayer, Grimentz, Saint Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie to form the municipality of Anniviers.
==History== Chandolin is first mentioned about 1250 as Eschandulyns. Chandolin was the permanent home of Swiss travel writer Ella Maillart until her death, and it now houses the Ella Maillart Museum in her memory.
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