“And the alp is green and dark and the morning is clear and fresh, and the sun flickers golden through the fir trees.”
This is the description that Giosuè Carducci, a famous italian poet and regular visitor to the town, offers in the first two stanzas of his poem "Gaby's landlady".
Untouched nature and places rich in tradition characterize this Alpine village located just 12 km from Gressoney-Saint-Jean.
Gaby is a Franco-Provençal linguistic island in Walser territory, with the exception of the hamlet of Niel where traces of Germanic origin are still visible in the toponymy and architecture.
