Seven alpine pastures, Chalet-Neuf, Conches, Chemeneau, Grand-Crau, Dreveneuse d’en Bas, Chermeux and Onnaz, extend over the heights bordering France.

On a hillside, Muraz has long suffered from the whims of the two streams bordering it, which have destroyed crops and flooded homes.

If the "grand" in Collombey-le-Grand ever indicated that the village was bigger or grander than neighbouring Collombey, then that was only true before the 12th century (according to Maurice Parvex, Collombey-Muraz).

With some 500 inhabitants, the village was originally huddled around the Chapel of Our Lady of the Seven Joys (chapelle Notre Dame des Sept-Joies) before experiencing considerable growth and extending into the plain.

Like the other villages, Les Neyres has experienced strong growth in recent years, even prompting the municipality to reopen an infant school.

The five villages of the municipality are also connected to the surrounding localities by a bus service run by the Public Transport of Chablais (TPC).

The geographical and political configuration as an autonomous municipality dates back to the division of the castellany of Monthey in 1787.

1630: Construction of the Châtillon castle, which will become the Manor of Fay de Lavallaz and whose first foundations date from the beginning of the 14th century.

On September 22, 1787, Governor Jean-Joseph Jost invites representatives of Troistorrents, Collombey, and Muraz to appear before him on October 2, 1787, on the subject of the division of communal property.

Finally, the many youth teams (M19, M16, M14, M12, M10, and M8) crisscross Switzerland as they compete in cantonal, Romand (COBB), and Swiss championships.

It plays as part of the “AVVF” table tennis association, which brings together clubs from the cantons of Vaud, Valais, and Fribourg.

Founded in 1942 by a group of wrestler friends from the region, initial training sessions took place outdoors.

Our wrestlers have also displayed considerable agility in Swiss wrestling competitions, with numerous laurels and even a federal crown won by Alain Bifrare in 1986, in Sion.

During the summer of 2012, the Valaisan Cantonal Swiss Wrestling Festival took place at the Perraires; Sylvain Vieux was victorious there.

The flagship event remains the traditional popular competition, open to all members of the SC as well as to all people living on the territory of the municipality.

It includes a giant slalom (course: Culet customs - Chalet Neuf) and a sealskin race (course: Chalet-Neuf - Bellevue peak).

In 2014, the society became Swiss champion of the section competition in the LNB ordnance weapons category and several of its representatives stand out both at cantonal and national levels.

The municipality of Collombey-Muraz also has, since January 1, 2013, a General Council, which is the legislative authority and whose 45 representatives were elected for the first time on November 11, 2012.

The opening of Switzerland's first oil refinery in 1960, supplied by a pipeline from Genoa, Italy, triggered a significant industrial boom.

The current church was erected in 1873 by the architect Émile Vuilloud and transformed in 1949 by enlarging the choir bays.

This neo-Romanesque style building, with three naves and a semi-circular apse choir, has a bell tower-porch characterized crowned by four corner turrets.

Also present is a dwelling with a two-level portico and front body topped with a triangular gable, adorned with the painted Du Fey de Lavallaz coat of arms.

The current church, in neo-Gothic style with a single nave, a polygonal choir and a ribbed vault, was built in 1898 by Joseph de Kalbermatten.

Inside, a neo-Gothic main altar with statues of saints Guillaume, Urbain, Thérèse and Rosalie frames the tabernacle.

Records such as the Cahier de l’Association du Vieux Collombey-Muraz even suggest that whenever a family decided to build a house, the first step was to dig a well.

This discovery triggered the idea of rebuilding a communal oven in order to, on the one hand, preserve and enhance its recoverable elements and, on the other, carry out a project of general interest.

Since then, four related events now take place four times a year: - Palm Sunday weekend - Bread festival on the Saturday of the Federal Fast - Patronal feast in November - Advent window.

Located near Monthey, whose cultural life is rich and varied, the municipality has its own music societies - Les Colombes and the Villageoise de Muraz - and a choir (Choeur Mixte).

An amateur theatre troupe, Théâtre du Rovra, has been offering a show to the local public every year since 1946.

Sociocultural infrastructure has been developed: a school and sports center with multipurpose rooms, a swimming pool, a children’s daycare centre, primary schools, an "orientation cycle", a municipal library, three football fields, tennis courts, a network of pedestrian paths and hiking trails, playgrounds, a covered area of 200 seats for societies and families.