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Seen only from the outside, very very beautiful!

Very well kept refuge, great cleanliness, splendid cuisine and great welcome

The regional capital is located in the middle of the valley of the same name. The city still has the layout of the old Roman castrum, and in the car-free centre several monuments recall the Roman period. Aosta was a lively religious centre in the Middle Ages. St. Anselm, the later Archbishop of Canterbury who died in 1109, was born here. Today Aosta is a busy tourist hub at the crossroads of the roads to the Great St. Bernard Pass and Switzerland.

Piazza Émile Chanoux is the central square of Aosta, located in the Valle d’Aosta region of Italy. Named after the notary and resistance leader Émile Chanoux, the square is a rectangular square with its long sides facing north and south. The square is surrounded by elegant buildings, including the neoclassical Town Hall (Hôtel de Ville), which is richly decorated with frescoes and marquetry. In front of the Town Hall is a monument to the Soldier of the Aosta Valley, made by Pietro Canonica in 1924. The square serves as a meeting place and venue for festivals and markets, and is also home to the Hôtel des États, an important 18th-century building now used for temporary exhibitions.

You reach Punta Valletta, where you can sit at the base of its cross. ⚠️ In July 2024, we were unable to locate path 19A which would have closed the return loop. So we did the via ferrata again in reverse.

The Côte de Gargantua nature reserve, known for containing the elongated spur, the "giant's little finger" (as legend has it) is located in Gressan. The spur, born from deposits of glacial origin, has stimulated popular imagination and generated the legend which gives the name of this very particular area: the Côte would be the little finger of the giant Gargantua, a character invented by Rabelais, buried under a blanket of debris.

The Aymavilles castle, located on a moraine hill and surrounded by meadows and vineyards, dominates the course of the Dora Baltea and the strategic and commercial route that led to the Alpine passes including the Piccolo San Bernardo. Its history is very ancient, in a papal bull of 1207 it appears as a simple tower or stronghold belonging to the assets of the canons of Saint Gilles. This fortification subsequently underwent numerous transformations thanks to the illustrious owners who followed one another over time, starting from 1360, when the Savoys enfeoffed the jurisdiction to Aimone di Challant. The castle is easily recognizable for its original but elegant structure characterized by eighteenth-century stuccoes, loggias and coats of arms. The exterior is refined by the presence of a vast park with a fountain, from which you can enjoy a spectacular view of the entire valley floor.

Mount Emilius, m. 3,559 s.l.m., is a mountain of the Graian Alps located in the Aosta Valley. Before 1839, it was known as Pic de dix heures, Pic Chamosser or Pic Chamoisier, later the peak was therefore named in honor of the fourteen-year-old Émilie Argentier who climbed it that year.