Tourism office
Bozel Tourist Office (http://www.ot-bozel.com), Tel: o4 79 55 03 77.
Winter opening hours from Christmas holidays to mid-April M-Sa 8.30AM-noon and 3PM-6.30PM. Su 8.30am-noon.
Off Season opening hours, M-Fr 9AM-noon and 3PM-6PM. Closed Saturdays and Sundays and holidays.
Summer opening hours July-August. M-Sa 9AM-noon and 3PM-7PM. Su 9AM-noon.
Understand
Inhabited since Neolithic, Bozel is the quintessence of the Savoyard village since the Middle Ages.
Administrative Centre and shops at the valley below, and habitat shelled in seven hamlets clinging to the mountains: Villemartin, Tincave, The Mollinets, The Râtelard Lachenal, The Court, Les Moulins.
Bozel a shift from an altitude of 900 to 2558 meters, the summit of Mount Jovet. There, a 360 ° view: form the Mont Blanc Massif to the Vanoise glaciers.
In Bozel you walk in the footsteps of history: the "Sarazine Tower" twelfth century makes us imagine the Lords Rouge of Bozel's feudal power. The chapel of St. Barbe 16th century recalls the strength and age of Christianity in the valley, to the Counter-Reformation Baroque.
While walking from village to village, you can also hear the echo of Tarines cattle in the pasture of Tarentaise, used in France today to produce the cheese with a distinct flavor that comes from the high alpine villages of the Tarentaise valley, or locate the shaping of the landscape by obstinate mountain farmers, peasants became workers in the twentieth century.
Today Bozel lies in the Vanoise National Park (http://www.parcnational-v...) and the center of prestigious ski resorts such as Brides les Bains , Champagny, Courchevel, Méribel, La Tania and Pralognan la Vanoise.
Today Bozel is a growing town, accounting 2031 inhabitants in 2008.