View over the Valley of Glière

Tiered between 2,100 and 2,270 metres, the valley of Lenta is one of the mountain pastures of Bonneval-sur-Arc in the heart of the Park. The chalets and occupants who inhabited the area testify to a thousand-year-old agropastoral civilisation that made the best possible use of the mountain’s natural resources, the only ones available in a society that seldom moved. The pasture is still mown in order to maintain a fauna of small sparrows and also to keep the floristic diversity as wide as possible. The purpose of this is ecological of course, but also for landscaping and agriculture because the Beaufort AOC requires part of the fodder fed to dairy cows to be harvested locally. The milk, and therefore the cheese, is also much tastier when cows feed on flowers containing aromatic molecules.