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Quart Castle is currently (January 2025) undergoing conservation work. The work should be completed by summer 2025.

Travelling along the Via Francigena from Aosta to Nus, just before Quart you come across this Castle built on a hill, an enchanting and solitary place.

Nice gravel easy paths close to the castle

The carved wooden furniture in this imposing fortress is typical of the Aosta Valley. In the courtyard and in the chapel, frescoes from the Gothic studio of Giacomo Jacquerio depict the lives of the most important saints and those of many sages and philosophers.

Located in the Valle d'Aosta region of Italy, the Castello di Fénis is one of the most famous medieval castles in the region. It attracts visitors with its abundance of towers and battlements. Although it has an impressive defensive structure, it is located on a small hill and not in an inaccessible place. In fact, it was originally intended as a prestigious residence for the Challant family. The courtyard has a semi-circular stone staircase and wooden balconies. At the top of the stairs is a 15th century fresco of Saint George slaying the dragon. The rooms are decorated with wooden furniture from that period.

The current castle was built on the remains of an earlier fortified house. The feudal estate of Saint-Marcel originally depended on the nearby castle of Ussel. Both estates were owned by the powerful Challant family. The castle was originally built in the 15th century by Giacomo di Challant-Aymavilles. It had a basically square shape like a castle residence, with an added rectangular western part for additional living space. A square tower dominated the structure, while two turrets with projecting basins adorned the corners, similar to those of Ussel Castle. Inside, the halls were covered with wooden ceilings, and some still contained remains of large chimneys.

Unlike other castles, built for war and protection purposes, Fénis Castle is not located on the top of a promontory, but on a slight hill with no natural defenses. Combining the characteristics of the fortification with those of the noble residence, the castle of Fénis was in fact the prestigious representative seat of the major exponents of the Challant family.

Probably founded in the fourteenth century, an example of the late typology of the so-called "monobloc castles", the castle of Saint-Marcel is located on a plateau at the base of the alluvial fan of the Saint-Marcel torrent and at a road junction point for the direct routes along the valley floor and towards the valley to the south, known for the extraction of soapstone and for the presence of iron-cupriferous and manganese mines which were certainly already known in the medieval period.