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Ausset Park Fountain
Overview
Do you know René Pedretti? He is the one who created the fountain-sculpture of the Ausset Park, the most important car park in the town, located in this strategic area of the Rue Centrale, near the shopping centres and the famous Café Suisse. René Pedretti, whose work can be seen next to the small public toilet building, whose facades have been decorated by asylum seekers and schoolchildren, was an artist who lived in Châtel-sur-Bex for many years.
A self-taught marble worker, then a stone cutter like his father, throughout his life he tried to give life to slender or stylised statues, as can be seen at the entrance to this car park, which opened to the public in 1983.
If you are curious to know more, take a look at the beautiful house, a few metres from Pedretti's "fountain", at the corner of Rue du Cropt and Rue Centrale, which has now been renovated and is surrounded by a beautiful orchard. This is where one of the descendants of the Ausset family settled in the middle of the 19th century in his wife's house. The house was surrounded by a vast undevelopable plot of land which was sold to the commune of Bex in 1977.
About René Pedretti again, you should know that another of his works is just next to the Catholic Church on the route de l'Allex. It is the Virgin and Children, a sculpture first made of wood, then in bronze in 2009, to avoid the ravages of time.
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