Saint-Vincent is located 575 meters high. It enjoys a special microclimate that protects it from sudden changes of temperature, as to be nicknamed the “The Alps Riviera“.
The small town lies in a natural basin around the ancient core of the medieval town and the twelfth-century Romanesque church.
In Saint-Vincent history is rich in examples that demonstrate how man has settled living in this land since by melting ice: Neolithic graffiti, Celtic rocks, a Roman bridge and a “mansio” tell thousands of years of a country history crossed by the ancient Roman Gaul road and the “Via Francigena”.
Connected to the village by a modern cable car, flows the ancient spring healthy discovered in 1770 by a local abbot. The thermal waters are particularly suitable for the treatment of various diseases of the respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts, using inhalations and idropinic applications.