Val de Bagnes, Switzerland

Val de Bagnes is a municipality of about 10,300 inhabitants in the district of Entremont in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, named after the eponymous Val de Bagnes. On 1 January 2021 the existing political communes of Bagnes and Vollèges merged to form it. Bagnes was first mentioned in 1150 as Banie and was formerly known by its German name Bangis. Before 1150, when it came to the abbey of Saint-Maurice, Bagnes was owned by the Counts of Savoy, and it remained under the abbey's authority until 1798, when it became part of the Entremont district. Verbier castle, also called the abbaye, is first mentioned in 1287 in Le Châble and was presumably destroyed in 1476. In the 19th century radicals and conservatives feuded violently in the villages, which led in 1844 to the bloody battle of Corberaye, where three conservatives were killed.