Martigny-Combe

Martigny-Combe is a municipality in the district of Martigny in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Martigny-Combe has an area, as of 2011[update], of 37.7 square kilometers (14.6 sq mi).

The western boundary of the municipality is the Trient river and the eastern is the Dranse.

It lies at the intersection of two major, international transportation routes, the Great St. Bernard Pass into Italy and the Col de la Forclaz into France.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Lion rampant Argent holding a Mallet Or.

[4] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (1,625 or 93.9%) as their first language, German is the second most common (34 or 2.0%) and Italian is the third (25 or 1.4%).

[4] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][11] The entire area of Plan Cerisier is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 877 votes were cast, of which 62 or about 7.1% were invalid.

[4] There were 845 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.5% of the workforce.

The number of jobs in the primary sector was 49, of which 47 were in agriculture and 2 were in forestry or lumber production.

In the tertiary sector; 59 or 29.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 3 or 1.5% were in the movement and storage of goods, 62 or 31.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 3 or 1.5% were in the information industry, 33 or 16.5% were technical professionals or scientists, 15 or 7.5% were in education and 6 or 3.0% were in health care.

[4] From the 2000 census[update], 1,410 or 81.5% were Roman Catholic, while 121 or 7.0% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The Combe valley with parts of Martigny-Combe
Plan-Cerisier hamlet