At the end of the Second World War the National Liberation Committee appointed Elia Page as mayor of Saint-Vincent again, which a few months later, on November 6, 1945, wrote to the Minister of the Interior, probably ignoring that the dicastery was interim right from the Head of the Government Ferruccio Parri, to ask for "the concession for the exercise of all exclusive games of chance, for the territory of Valle d'Aosta, for a period of fifteen years" and explaining that "the majority of problems that currently beset the City of Saint-Vincent and the others of the Valle d'Aosta to give themselves adequate and worthy equipment would certainly be resolved with revenue revenues. That same summer, in the Kursaal hall, money began to play and in September the administration managed to pay the huge debts incurred for work on the mountain channel entirely. The Under Prefect consented by reminding him of the responsibilities connected with the maintenance of public order in the Municipality. In 1921 the mayor Elia Page asked the Under Prefect of Aosta permission to open a roulette table for the summer months. In 1898 Queen Margherita di Savoia also stayed in Saint-Vincent appreciating the therapeutic virtues of the "Fons Salutis" and soon the spa town of Aosta was pompously renamed "the Italian Karlsbad". There was also a Casino (no accent), but it was just a gathering place where you could enjoy good music and dance gambling still did not speak. In 1872, there were already three hotels: the Scudo di Francia, the Hôtel des Quatre-Saisons and the Hôtel du Lion d'Or, the latter still today in activity. Shortly thereafter, the boom in the spas and the "Riviera delle Alpi" broke out. In 1854 it was the turn of another queen, Maria Teresa, widow of Carlo Alberto, who tried in vain to get back into health. In 1850 the parish house was home to Silvio Pellico, who came to health after his imprisonment in the Spielberg fortress. Since then all the haute société of northern Italy began to frequent Saint-Vincent to "pass the waters".
The analyzes confirmed the prelate's expectations and the "Fons Salutis" became a call for vacationers.ĭuring the summers from 1827 to 1829 Queen Maria Teresa, wife of Vittorio Emanuele I of Sardinia, and her three daughters, the princesses Maria Anna, Maria Cristina and Beatrice Maria followed the spa treatment staying at the Challant castle of nearby Châtillon. On that day the abbot Jean-Baptiste Perret, passionate about chemistry and mineralogy, discovered a source of water with therapeutic virtues. The beginning of the tourist fortunes of the Valdostan town has very ancient origins and can be dated precisely: 20 July 1770.
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