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The church of San Rocco is a small religious building from the 1600s, built to remember the numerous deaths due to the plague. The place is particularly loved for its incredible view of the valley below and the Dora Baltea river.

A very special Roman bridge with a beautiful view.

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アオスタ渓谷のローマ化の壮大な証拠です。その年代測定は不確かです。一部の人々は紀元前120年頃に建てられたと主張し、他の人々は紀元前25年だと主張しています。 橋 両側を切り立った岩盤に固定されたこの橋は、高さ25メートル、単一のアーチの幅は35メートルです。橋台の基部には、石造りのアーチを建設するために必要な足場となった木材の梁を設置するための窪みが、切り立った岩盤に掘られているのが見えます。19世紀後半には、構造を強化するためにいくつかの鉄製の留め金が取り付けられました。19世紀初頭には、少し下流に別の木造橋が建設されましたが、1876年に現在の石造りの構造物に置き換えられました。 伝説 民衆の想像力は、この橋の建設を悪魔の仕業だと考えてきました。伝説によれば、トゥール司教の聖マルティンがイタリアから自分の司教区に戻る途中、リシュ川の氾濫で唯一の橋が流されてしまい、渡れなくなりました。悪魔は、一晩で頑丈な橋を架けることで問題を解決しようと提案しましたが、その見返りに橋を最初に渡った者の魂を要求しました。聖人はこれを受け入れましたが、翌朝、パンのかけらを橋の反対側に投げ、空腹の小さな犬を最初に渡らせました。激怒した悪魔は、稲妻と硫黄の悪臭とともにリシュ川に姿を消し、橋は人々の手に残りました。この伝説は、現在でもポン＝サン＝マルタンのカーニバルの中心的なテーマの一つであり、ローマ時代の橋の下で悪魔が焼かれることで締めくくられます。

The legend Popular imagination attributes the creation of the bridge to the devil. According to popular legend, San Martino, Bishop of Tours, returning to his diocese from Italy, encountered the insurmountable obstacle of the River Lys, which had destroyed the only crossing after a flood. The devil suggested that he build a solid bridge in just one night, and in exchange he demanded the soul of the first person to cross the bridge. The saint accepted the pact. The next morning he threw a piece of bread on the other side of the bridge, so that the first one was none other than a starving dog. The devil, furious with rage, disappeared into the Lys with flashes of lightning and clouds of vapor smelling of sulphur, and the people kept the bridge. This legend has developed into one of the most important motifs of the Pont-Saint-Martin carnival, which ends with the burning of a devil's doll under the Roman bridge. Source: https://www.lovevda.it/de/database/8/roemische-architektur/pont-saint-martin/romische-brucke/877

At the foot of the bridge foundation you can still see hollows in the stone, where the wooden beams necessary for the construction of the arched bridge stood. At the end of the 19th century, some iron clamps were added to support the structure. Source: https://www.lovevda.it/de/database/8/roemische-architektur/pont-saint-martin/romische-brucke/877

The place, which lies at an altitude of 354 meters and borders Piedmont, is the entrance to the Aosta Valley. The town's most famous structure is a spectacular bridge from Roman times. This famous construction testifies to the former presence of the ancient trade route to Gaul, which passed through this place. The 23 meter high and five meter wide single-arched stone bridge was the only crossing for travelers in the valley until 1831. Source: https://www.lovevda.it/de/katalog/3/ortschaften/aostatal/pont-saint-martin/411

The Roman bridge of Pont-Saint-Martin has played a fundamental role in the history of the territory on which it was built at the end of the first century BC, a role primarily of a functional nature which it maintained for about two millennia, as long as the consular road delle Gallie carried out its activity as a transit route through the Alpine barrier. only starting from the 19th century, after the construction in 1836 of a wooden bridge on the Ivrea-Aosta route, rebuilt in masonry in 1876, did the Roman bridge lose its original function to become a recognized monument of the Roman world, a symbol of the territory marked by its imposing mass.