Chelin is located on the slope of the hill Châtelard, on the right side of the Rhone Valley, in the canton of Valais.

The first evidence of a permanent settlement date back to the Bronze Age, as attested by the discovery in 1894 of a Celtic cemetery which has unfortunately been destroyed since then.

[3] In June 1934, after an upsurge of tuberculosis cases in Valais, we built a preventorium to provide infected children air cures and allow them to rest.

[4] Chelin has in all likelihood been inhabited continuously since the Bronze Age, so we do not find a lot of very old houses as modernized over time.

In the past, this village was visited by far for the practice of hunting grey partridge[5] so abundant, but it left the Valais in the 1960s due to the urbanization of the canton.