Vouvry

Vouvry (French pronunciation: [vuvʁi]) is a municipality in the district of Monthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Vouvry has an area, as of 2009[update], of 33.5 square kilometers (12.9 sq mi).

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Per fess Gules an Eagle displayed Sable beaked, langued and membered Argent ensigned a cross couped of the last, and Azure three Mullets of Five, two and one.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (2,549 or 86.1%) as their first language, German is the second most common (100 or 3.4%) and Albanian is the third (88 or 3.0%).

[8] The historical population is given in the following chart:[12] The entire village of Vouvry is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

In the federal election, a total of 1,108 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 48.3%.

[16] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 954 votes were cast, of which 77 or about 8.1% were invalid.

[17] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 33.29% of the vote.

Of these, a total of 49 people worked in 17 businesses in the primary economic sector.

[21] In 2015 local hotels had a total of 7,203 overnight stays, of which 37.6% were international visitors.

In the tertiary sector; 78 or 18.1% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 37 or 8.6% were in the movement and storage of goods, 56 or 13.0% were in a hotel or restaurant, 5 or 1.2% were in the information industry, 15 or 3.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 7 or 1.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 54 or 12.6% were in education and 129 or 30.0% were in health care.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 1,828 or 61.8% were Roman Catholic, while 514 or 17.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

The library has (as of 2008[update]) 17,000 books or other media, and loaned out 12,809 items in the same year.

It was open a total of 280 days with average of 14.5 hours per week during that year.

[25] In 2014 the crime rate, of the over 200 crimes listed in the Swiss Criminal Code (running from murder, robbery and assault to accepting bribes and election fraud), in Vouvry was 34.4 per thousand residents, which is 53.3% of the average rate in the entire country.

Aerial view (1971)
Stockalper canal between Vouvry and Les Évouettes
Porte-du-Scex castle
Reformed Church meeting hall of Vourvy