Sion District Sion District The district of Sion is a district of the canton of Valais in Switzerland. It has a population of (as of ). It comprises the following municipalities: The blazon of the district coat of arms is "Per pale Argent two Mullets of Five Gules, and Gules." Sion has a population () of . Most of the population () speaks French (31,488 or 85.1%) as their first language, German is the second most common (1,878 or 5.1%) and Portuguese is the third (1,029 or 2.8%). There are 915 people who speak Italian and 20 people who speak Romansh. ,
Ion Theodorescu-Sion to "Tinerimea" and "Arta Română" salons, Theodorescu-Sion exhibited his work at the Atheneum, the "Universul" newspaper art show, Dalles Gallery and various other venues. With Ressu and Arthur Verona, Sion was also co-founder, in 1921, of Romania's first artists' trade union ("Sindicatul Artelor Frumoase"), which militated for basic social security but also had a political and (according to art expert Vasile Radu) "utopian" agenda. Briefly, their plans earned official support during the interval when Victor Eftimiu, a Symbolist playwright and rich art collector, was Minister of Culture and the Arts. In the early interwar years, Sion was also one of