Gîte d’étape Le Mélèze

Le Mélèze, dating back to the late 1600s and early 1800s, is a high mountain house, located at 1700 m in the centre of the village of Bien and the wild Valsavarenche.
It serves as a gîte d'étape, providing shelter for hikers on the Alta Via or mountaineers preparing to climb the Gran Paradiso.
Le Mélèze is an old renovated house whose original structure has been preserved. The living room has been obtained from the casera on the ground floor.  This is where you have breakfast and eat. The Gîte has three rooms: the Cheesemaker's (with a double bed, named after the cheese-making tools on display there), the Skier's (with a double bed that can also be separated and a washbasin, named after the skis and sled that you find there) and the Farmer's room, obtained from the old attic, which has two separate beds. The kitchen is available on request and shared with other guests. You can also eat at the kitchen table. Two shared full bathrooms, one upstairs and one on the ground floor, are available to guests.