{"id":8572,"date":"2022-12-30T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T15:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charmantpetitlac.com\/?page_id=8572"},"modified":"2026-09-17T12:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T10:48:54","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/charmantpetitlac.com\/fr\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"CHP-EN-chi-siamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<!--\nAbout us \u2014 WordPress paste-ready block (English).\n\nEnglish version of \/chi-siamo\/, to be published at \/about-us\/\nHeader and footer stay with the theme.\n\nHow to use:\n1. Pages \u2192 Add page \u2192 title \"About us\" \u2192 slug \/about-us\/\n   (if you use a different slug, update the URLs in this block and in chi-siamo-blocco-en.html)\n2. In Themify: hide page title, sidebar None, layout Full Width\n3. Themify Builder \u2192 full-width row \u2192 HTML \/ Custom HTML module\n4. Paste THIS entire block (style + html + script)\n5. 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}\n  .chi-landing .split-visual img { height: min(48vh, 420px); }\n  .chi-landing .split-visual.family img { height: auto; }\n}\n@media (max-width: 760px) {\n  .chi-landing .facts-grid { grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr; }\n  .chi-landing .hero { padding: 96px 16px 120px; }\n  .chi-landing .page-nav { bottom: 16px; gap: 6px; }\n  .chi-landing .faq-a { padding-right: 0; }\n}\n<\/style>\n\n<div class=\"chi-landing\" id=\"about-us\">\n\n  <section class=\"hero\" aria-label=\"The Fosson family\">\n    <div class=\"hero-media\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/charmantpetitlac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luigiepamela-charmant2.jpg\" alt=\"Luigi Fosson and Pamela Zacco, owners and founders of Au Charmant Petit Lac in Champoluc\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\">\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"hero-content reveal\">\n      <span class=\"kicker\">About us<\/span>\n      <h1>Our <em>family<\/em><\/h1>\n      <p class=\"hero-lead\">Au Charmant Petit Lac \u00b7 Champoluc \u00b7 the Fosson family<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n    <nav class=\"page-nav\" aria-label=\"About us sections\">\n      <a href=\"#family\">Our family<\/a>\n      <a href=\"#opening\">The opening<\/a>\n      <a href=\"#values\">Our values<\/a>\n      <a href=\"#work-with-us\">Work with us<\/a>\n    <\/nav>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"quote-band\" id=\"intro\">\n    <div class=\"wrap\">\n      <p class=\"quote-big\">&#8220;Happy is he, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his own home.&#8221;<\/p>\n      <p class=\"lead\">Au Charmant Petit Lac is a 5-star ecohotel in Champoluc, in Val d&#8217;Ayas (Aosta Valley). It is owned by the Fosson family, who founded it and run it. The family atmosphere is not a tone of voice: it is the way the house was conceived, built and lived in every single day.<\/p>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"facts\" aria-label=\"At a glance\">\n    <div class=\"facts-grid\">\n      <div class=\"fact\"><strong>2019<\/strong><span>Opening<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"fact\"><strong>Fosson<\/strong><span>Owning family<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"fact\"><strong>28<\/strong><span>Rooms and suites<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"fact\"><strong>15,000 sqm<\/strong><span>Grounds with lake<\/span><\/div>\n      <div class=\"fact\"><strong>5 stars<\/strong><span>Ecohotel Parc &amp; Spa<\/span><\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section\" id=\"family\">\n    <div class=\"wrap split\">\n      <div class=\"split-visual family\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/charmantpetitlac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/luigiepamela-charmant2.jpg\" alt=\"Luigi Fosson and Pamela Zacco, the founding family of Au Charmant Petit Lac in Champoluc\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\">\n        <p class=\"caption\">Luigi Fosson and Pamela Zacco \u00b7 Champoluc<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"split-copy\">\n        <span class=\"section-num\">01 \u2014 Our family<\/span>\n        <h2>Luigi Fosson and Pamela Zacco.<\/h2>\n        <p>Au Charmant Petit Lac is owned by Luigi Fosson and his wife Pamela Zacco, hoteliers from the Aosta Valley based in Champoluc. Together with their children Sarah, Cesare, Henri and Pascal, they manage their hospitality businesses as a family.<\/p>\n        <p>Luigi Fosson, born in 1948, is a hotelier from Ayas and president of Adava, the association of hotels and tourism businesses of the Aosta Valley. Pamela Zacco works alongside him running the house. Together they wanted a five-star mountain hotel that would also be a family hotel: small, recognisable, rooted in its valley.<\/p>\n        <p>Fosson hotellerie did not begin in 2019. Around a hundred years ago it was Luigi&#8217;s grandmother who opened the first family hotel in the valley, when tourism in Val d&#8217;Ayas was still in its early days. Au Charmant Petit Lac is the contemporary chapter of that story: the same craft, the same valley, a new idea of luxury.<\/p>\n        <p class=\"quote\">Beyond the ecohotel, the family is present in the area with L&#8217;Emporio, Le Bistrot, the Vieux Crest mountain hut and Eno-Therapy.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section alt\" id=\"opening\">\n    <div class=\"wrap split reverse\">\n      <div class=\"split-visual\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/charmantpetitlac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/home-chp.jpg\" alt=\"Wood and stone facade of Au Charmant Petit Lac, the 5-star ecohotel opened in 2019 in Champoluc\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\n        <p class=\"caption\">Route Ramey 50 \u00b7 Champoluc \u00b7 2019<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"split-copy\">\n        <span class=\"section-num\">02 \u2014 The opening<\/span>\n        <h2>Opened in 2019 in Champoluc.<\/h2>\n        <p>Au Charmant Petit Lac opened in 2019 in Champoluc, in the hamlet of Ramey, in the municipality of Ayas.<\/p>\n        <p>The building is a new construction: three floors above ground, an attic floor and a basement. It stands in the centre of the village, sheltered by grounds of about 15,000 sqm with a little lake. There are 28 rooms and suites over three floors; spa, restaurants and common areas all stay within the same house.<\/p>\n        <p>The plan in 2019 was not to open another mountain hotel. Luigi Fosson wanted to prove that in the Aosta Valley you can build a five-star hotel with zero combustion emissions, without giving up comfort, design and hospitality. Geothermal energy, solar thermal, wood and local stone are not a later addition: they are part of the project, from the foundations up.<\/p>\n        <p>In September 2022 the hotel won the Aosta Valley episode of <em>4 Hotel<\/em> with Bruno Barbieri, on Sky.<\/p>\n        <ul class=\"facts-list\">\n          <li><strong>Opened:<\/strong> 2019<\/li>\n          <li><strong>Address:<\/strong> Route Ramey 50, Champoluc (AO), Italy<\/li>\n          <li><strong>Grounds:<\/strong> about 15,000 sqm, with a little lake<\/li>\n          <li><strong>Rooms and suites:<\/strong> 28<\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section\" id=\"values\">\n    <div class=\"wrap\">\n      <div class=\"section-head\">\n        <span class=\"section-num\">03 \u2014 Our values<\/span>\n        <h2>Home, valley, respect.<\/h2>\n        <p class=\"lede\">The values of Au Charmant Petit Lac are one and the same as the way the Fosson family understands hospitality.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"pillars\">\n        <article class=\"pillar\">\n          <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M4 12l8-7 8 7\"\/><path d=\"M6 11v9h12v-9\"\/><\/svg>\n          <h3>Home<\/h3>\n          <p>Luxury, here, is simplicity, warmth and attention to detail. The hotel is shaped around the family&#8217;s own tastes and around what the Fossons look for when they travel: hospitality without filters, spaces in wood, quiet, a stay that feels genuinely liveable.<\/p>\n        <\/article>\n        <article class=\"pillar\">\n          <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><path d=\"M12 21s7-5.4 7-11a7 7 0 1 0-14 0c0 5.6 7 11 7 11z\"\/><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"10\" r=\"2.2\"\/><\/svg>\n          <h3>Valley<\/h3>\n          <p>Champoluc, Val d&#8217;Ayas and Monte Rosa are not a backdrop. Zero-kilometre breakfast, Aosta Valley and Savoyard cooking, local materials, local people: the hotel exists to let guests be in this valley, not in an interchangeable five-star hotel.<\/p>\n        <\/article>\n        <article class=\"pillar\">\n          <svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><circle cx=\"12\" cy=\"12\" r=\"9\"\/><path d=\"M12 3v18M3 12h18\"\/><\/svg>\n          <h3>Respect<\/h3>\n          <p>Sustainability means zero combustion emissions, geothermal energy, solar thermal and care for the people who work in the house. Passion, professionalism and kindness are the criteria by which the team is chosen.<\/p>\n        <\/article>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section alt\" id=\"questions\">\n    <div class=\"wrap\">\n      <div class=\"section-head\">\n        <span class=\"section-num\">In brief<\/span>\n        <h2>About us, in four answers.<\/h2>\n        <p class=\"lede\">The questions we are asked most often, with clear answers.<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"faq-list\">\n        <details class=\"faq-item\">\n          <summary>Who owns Au Charmant Petit Lac?<span class=\"faq-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/summary>\n          <div class=\"faq-a\">\n            <p>Luigi Fosson and Pamela Zacco, the Fosson family. The hotel is family-run, in Champoluc.<\/p>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/details>\n        <details class=\"faq-item\">\n          <summary>When did Au Charmant Petit Lac open?<span class=\"faq-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/summary>\n          <div class=\"faq-a\">\n            <p>In 2019, in Champoluc, in the hamlet of Ramey (Route Ramey 50, municipality of Ayas, Aosta Valley).<\/p>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/details>\n        <details class=\"faq-item\">\n          <summary>Is Au Charmant Petit Lac a family hotel?<span class=\"faq-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/summary>\n          <div class=\"faq-a\">\n            <p>Yes. It was founded and is run by the Fosson family, hoteliers in Val d&#8217;Ayas for about a century. The first family hotel was opened by Luigi Fosson&#8217;s grandmother.<\/p>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/details>\n        <details class=\"faq-item\">\n          <summary>Why is it called an ecohotel?<span class=\"faq-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/summary>\n          <div class=\"faq-a\">\n            <p>Because it is a 5-star hotel designed without fossil fuels: geothermal energy, solar thermal, wood and local stone. Luxury should cost the planet nothing.<\/p>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/details>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"section\" id=\"work-with-us\">\n    <div class=\"wrap split reverse\">\n      <div class=\"split-visual\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/charmantpetitlac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/home-chp3.jpg\" alt=\"The team of Au Charmant Petit Lac in the hotel grounds in Champoluc\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\n        <p class=\"caption\">The team \u00b7 passion, professionalism, kindness<\/p>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"split-copy\">\n        <span class=\"section-num\">04 \u2014 Work with us<\/span>\n        <h2>Becoming part of the house.<\/h2>\n        <p>Are you a waiter, a chef, a housekeeping attendant? Are you looking for work for the season, or for life?<\/p>\n        <p>Au Charmant is a place where simplicity is alive, above all in the people who work here. We give particular attention to personal and professional growth, equal opportunities and the fulfilment of every individual.<\/p>\n        <p>Fill in the form and get in touch. You could become part of our family.<\/p>\n        <div class=\"jobs-actions\">\n          <a class=\"btn btn-gold\" href=\"https:\/\/charmantpetitlac.com\/work-with-us\/\">Apply now<\/a>\n          <a class=\"btn btn-line\" href=\"mailto:info@charmantpetitlac.com\">Write to info@<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n  <section class=\"cta\" id=\"book\">\n    <div class=\"cta-media\">\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/charmantpetitlac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/sliderE.jpg\" alt=\"Au Charmant Petit Lac at sunset, exterior view with the little lake in Champoluc\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1290\">\n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"cta-inner\">\n      <span class=\"kicker\">5-star ecohotel \u00b7 Champoluc<\/span>\n      <h2>A home, in Val d&#8217;Ayas.<\/h2>\n      <p>Every stay at Au Charmant Petit Lac is the hospitality of a family of hoteliers, in a five-star hotel with zero impact.<\/p>\n      <div class=\"cta-actions\">\n        <a class=\"btn btn-gold\" href=\"https:\/\/booking.passepartout.cloud\/booking?oidPortale=18627&amp;lingua=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Book now<\/a>\n        <a class=\"btn btn-ghost\" href=\"https:\/\/charmantpetitlac.com\/contact\/\">Contact us<\/a>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/section>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@graph\": [\n    {\n      \"@type\": \"AboutPage\",\n      \"name\": \"About us \u2014 The Fosson family\",\n      \"url\": \"https:\/\/charmantpetitlac.com\/about-us\/\",\n      \"inLanguage\": \"en\",\n      \"description\": \"Au Charmant Petit Lac is the 5-star ecohotel in Champoluc, founded in 2019 by the Fosson family. 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