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Alpinart Exhibition Centre
Alpinart exhibition centre was opened in July 2008. It is located in the Miners’ Village (Villaggio Minatori), in Cogne. Its three halls house exhibitions dedicated to alpine culture.Since July ...
Read moreAtelier d’Art et Métiers
The “Atelier d’art et metiers” houses the works of Dorino Ouvrier, a nationally-acknowledged wood-sculptor. This artist works mainly on subjects related to Cogne, such as traditional...
Read moreAymavilles castle
The castle of Aymavilles is certainly the most characteristic and recognizable element of the Community for its position and architecture, characterized by the four cylindrical towers crowned by ...
Read moreAymavilles Municipality
Aymavilles is the latest of the 74 municipalities in Aosta Valley Autonomous Region. With a surface of 53.41 Km², it stretches out over the right-hand side of the Dora Baltea river, from 69...
Read moreCappella di Chardonney a Champorcher
Read moreChampdepraz loc. Capoluogo
Read moreChamporcher loc. Castello
Read moreChâtel-Argent and panoramic viewpoint
There are no evidences of the existence of a Roman fortress in Châtel-Argent, even though some signs (the presence of Roman bricks recycled in the chapel’s walls, discovery of inscriptions...
Read moreChiesa del Capoluogo a Champdepraz
Read moreChiesa di Castello a Champorcher
Read moreComba pouyeuisa Chapel
Comba pouyeuisa is a small oratory placed upstream from the village of La Poya, next to the regional road to Cogne.
Read moreForest of Servaz
Read moreForte di Bard
Read moreGPNP Tourist Secretarial Service - Aosta Valley
In May 2008 Fondation Grand Paradis and Gran Paradiso National Park signed an agreement for the management of the Tourist Secretarial Service of the Aosta Valley side of the Gran Paradiso National Par...
Read moreGran Lac
Read moreIntrod Bridges
Formerly the “grand pont” was made of wood and the inhabitants of Introd had repeatedly to restore or to replace it.
In 1824, the City Council decided to rebuild it in masonry, but due to...
Read moreIntrod Municipality
Inhabited since the Neolithic, Introd is one of the 74 municipalities of Aosta Valley. This middle hill country occupies the bottom of Rhêmes and Valsavarenche valleys, at the entrance of Gran P...
Read moreIntrod parish Church
The first mention of the parish appears only in 1176, when Pope Alexander III laid the church of Introd under the patronage of the Bishop of Aosta in the papal bull of April 20th.
Over the centu...
Read moreIssogne Castle
Read moreLa Rampa
“La Rampa” (so-called by the Vellatsu, Villeneuve’s inhabitants), leads to the fortress of Châtel-Argent; it’s a great staircase dug into the rock overlooking the village...
Read moreLoc. Les Combes
Despite belonging to the municipality of Introd, the village of Les Combes sits in a clearing that overlooks the municipality of Arvier.
It consists of several buildings of great architectural intere...
Read moreLoc. Villes-Dessus
The village of Villes Dessus, which is part of the municipality of Introd, is located at the crossroads between the regional road that climbs to Rhêmes and Valsavarenche valleys and ...
Read moreMaison Bruil
Maison Bruil at Introd is one of the most important examples of rural architecture of Gran Paradiso.
Built in 1683, it is a very old rural dwelling put to a lot of different uses. All the diffe...
Read moreMaison de Cogne Gérard-Dayné
Maison de Cogne Gérard-Dayné is a rural house mentioned in documents that date back to the 17th century with all the characteristics of traditional Cogne Valley “stone and wood&rdq...
Read moreMaison di Pitz – les Dentelles of Cogne
Les Dentelles are Cogne’s traditional bobbin laces, which used to be made with hemp and are now made with linen. The word “dentelles” comes from the French word “dent”, t...
Read moreMaison Musée Jean-Paul II
The local council of Introd, under the sponsorship of the Autonomous Region of Aosta Valley, and with the co-operation of the Vatican, has promoted the birth of the House Museum John Paul II.
The Mus...
Read moreMaison Pellissier - Rhêmes-Saint-Georges
Maison Pellissier of Rhêmes-Saint-Georges is a multiuse centre used for meetings, congresses and events; It is strategically located in Rhêmes valley, an excellent position for the...
Read moreMine of Altoforno di Servaz
Read moreMine of Barma de Rova
Read moreMine of Lac Gelé
Read moreMunicipality of Cogne
Cogne, at 1,534 metres a.s.l., has a population of around 1,500 and is located in the southern part of Aosta Valley.
It covers an area of 21,395 hectares, 13,800 of which are included in the G...
Read moreMunicipality of Rhêmes-Notre-Dame
Over the past few decades, the high valley of Rhêmes, now parish and municipality of Rhêmes-Notre-Dame, has become a popular vacation spot for its extraordinary beauty and the remarkable c...
Read moreMuseo delle Miniere di Champdepraz
Read moreÔla
Some rural outbuildings, named Ôla, were built at the foot of the castle: a large farmstead of 680 km².
The southern façade of the main building, belonging to a later phase of const...
Read moreParadisia Alpine Botanical Garden
Paradisia Alpine Garden, created in July 1955, is located 1,700 metres above sea-level in Valnontey, Cogne; its name derives from Paradisia liliastrum, a mountain lily with delicate white flower...
Read moreParc Animalier
The Parc Animalier of Introd is a thematic park dedicated to the flora and fauna of Aosta Valley Alps is set in Villes Dessus, at about 900 m. a.s.l..
The visit of the park lasts about an hour throug...
Read morePark’s Visitors Centre - Cogne
TutelAttiva Laboratorio Parco is the name given to the Park visitors centre in Cogne. There visitors can find out about what happens in the park, build on their knowledge of the environment and analys...
Read morePark’s Visitors Centre - Rhêmes-Notre-Dame
Gran Paradiso National Park Visitors Centre of Rhêmes-Notre-Dame tells an enthralling story: the Gypaëtus Barbatus (Bearded vulture), the biggest European prey bird, has returned to the ski...
Read morePark’s Visitors Centre - Valsavarenche
Gran Paradiso National Park Visitors Centre of Valsavarenche presents different topics related to the life, survival, activity and presence of predators which live in the territory.The visit con...
Read morePark's Visitor Center of Champorcher
Read morePark's Visitor Center of Covarey
Read morePont d’ Aël Village
Upon the downriver right-hand side of the bridge, there is a compact built-up area named Pondaël, but known by its inhabitants as Pondy, which has maintained the features of a rural village with ...
Read morePont d’Aël aqueduct bridge
Built in 3 A.D. by two Roman colons , Aimo and Avilio, over the gorge of the Grand Eyvia river, the aqueduct bridge made of stone, about 56 m. high and over 50 m. long, is, in Aosta Valley, one of the...
Read morePrieur's Chapel
After the plague of 1629-1630, the inhabitants of Rhêmes-Saint-Georges took a vow of building a chapel to avert the contagion of 1630.
The Prieur’s Chapel was erected in honour of St. Mar...
Read moreRhêmes-Saint-Georges Church
The parish church of Rhêmes-Saint-Georges, dedicated to Saint George, patron of the village, has been built where it always was during the 18th century.
Tradition tells us that previously there...
Read moreRhêmes-Saint-Georges Municipality
Rhêmes-Saint-Georges is a municipality of about 200 inhabitants set at the beginning of the Rhêmes Valley, at about 1200 m. a.s.l..
The municipality, which borders on the North on Introd ...
Read moreSaint Mary Church
It’s one of the most important religious buildings in Aosta Valley. The most ancient testimony of its existence is quoted into a document, which dates back to the end of the 12th century.
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Read moreSanta Colomba Chapel
Within the castle walls, Santa Colomba Chapel faces Aosta plane. It was probably built over the ruins belonging to Roman times.
The structure left today probably goes back to the 11th century. ...
Read moreSarriod Castle of Introd
The original Castle dates back to the 12th Century, like the Castle of Graines, and was made up of a square tower surrounded by walls.
In around 1260 Pierre Sarriod of Introd enlarged the primi...
Read moreSt. Léger church
The historic religious Abbé Henry dates its origins back to the first settlement of the Benedictines in Aosta Valley and includes it among the 43 parishes existing around 1800’s.
It appe...
Read moreSt. Martin church
The church of St Martin d’Aymavilles was not only included among the first 15 parishes of the Valley established around 1600 but is also cited along with the churches of St Germain and of Morgex...
Read moreThe Furnace
West of the village, in front of a building that, in the past, was the military police station, and next to the group practice structure, there are the remains of a foundry.
The remains of this found...
Read moreThe Madonna of the Alpine Troops
The statue of the Madonna of the Alpine Troops is a monument erected by the alpine troops department of Villeneuve in 1970.
It was created according to the contemporary art canons, depicting Virgin M...
Read moreTHE PARISH CHURCH
Cogne parish is dedicated to Sant’Orso, a clergyman from Aosta Valley who lived between the 7th and 8th centuries and who was renowned for his thaumaturgic powers. Legend goes that it was he him...
Read moreThe village of Villeneuve
Villeneuve in Châtel-Argent was thus named in 1273, when Philip Earl of Savoy bestowed the “patentes”.
The village rose at the foot of the rock on which the castle stood, between th...
Read moreValsavarenche municipality
Valsavarenche territory is 139 km. square large and its villages are between 1.200 – 2.000 mt. high. The valley has the characteristic allure of the mountains, with the wood, the grass and many ...
Read moreVerrès Castle
Read moreVilleneuve Municipality
The municipality of Villeneuve is located at 640 m. a.s.l., about ten km away from the town of Aosta, along the road that takes to Monte Bianco tunnel.
The findings of tombs and handiwork belonging t...
Read moreVilleneuve parish church
It’s in 1782 that Villeneuve’s villagers asked the Bishop De Sales to build a new church in the village, as the old one was too far from the centre and it caused many problems to the pries...
Read moreVoix Chapel
The chapel in the village of Voix was built in 1781, at the will of the inhabitants of the hamlets of Voix and Cachoz.
The land where it was built was donated by Petronilla Vauthier, and the expenses...
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