Springwater travels far. What you see before you is a reproduction of a real spring: try to visualize its natural journey. It begins underground, trickling through the rocky layers deep down until it reaches the surface.
At that point, it could choose to stop, forming one of the 707 lakes in Val d’Aosta, or keep going downvalley, meeting up with other waters along the way, like the runoff from glaciers: together they tumble downhill, combining their forces until they form rivers.
That’s what happens right here, under the Pavillon du Mont Fréty promontory, where these waters become the Dora Ferret and Veny. Together they form a bigger river, with another name,
Dora Baltea, that collects all the water that flows off Mont Blanc.
