Fulpmes (960m/3,151ft; pop. 3,000), surrounded by high mountain chains, is the chief place in the valley and a well-known health and skiing resort, with the finely formed Serles massif (2,719m/8,921ft) to the south. The village has a considerable hardware industry (ice axes, climbing irons, etc.; ironworking museum, open only in summer). The
parish church (1747) has an interior richly decorated with Roccoco stucco work. Fulpmes also has a Peasant Theater and "alternative music" concerts are given. There is a mineral spring in the Medraz quarter. 2km/1.25mi above Fulpmes lies Telfes (1,002m/3,288ft), the oldest parish in the valley, first recorded in 1344.