english

  • Private Tour in Italy

    Private Tour in Italy

    Private driver, exclusive excursions, Transfers and Private Cab, Sorrento, Neapolitan Riviera, Rome, Livorno, Florence, Amalfi...

  • Romantic Boat Amalfi

    Romantic Boat Amalfi

    Rental Boat, Boats with Skippers, Exclusive Excursions to Capri, Positano Boats, Li Galli Island, Positano, Atrani, Amalficoast...

  • Il Borgo Restaurant Sorrento

    Il Borgo Restaurant Sorrento

    Mediterranean Gastronomy, seafood specialties, Panoramic Terrace, Sorrento Coast Sorrentine Peninsula Naples Campania Italy

  • Prinz Rudolf Merano

    Prinz Rudolf Merano

  • Luigi Sabino Transfers & Excursions

    Luigi Sabino Transfers & Excursions

    Amalfi Coast airport transfers, excursions from Neapolitan Riviera, transfers from Positano, Ravello, Amalfi to the Salerno, Naples...

you are here: Home Valle d'Aosta Aosta Surroundings Aosta

Stay

Visit a locality browsing the menu on the left. In each Italy area you can then choose the best touristical structures we are proposing.

More About

Here you can find info and tips about the area you are visiting.

Print this page Send to a friend by e-mail

Aosta

Description

Aosta, the ancient Augusta Praetoria, was inhabited by a Celtic-Ligurian population, called Salassi; the nit became an important Roman defensive outpost, equipped with villas, forum, theater, thermal baths and amphitheater.
it was located in a very suggestive natural basin and it is rich in monuments of great value, such as the Roman remains (the Arch of Augustus, the Porta Praetoria, the defensive walls, the Amphitheatre, the Roman bridge, the Criptoportico Forense, recognized Italian National Monument), the Collegiata Church of Sant'Orso, dated back to the XI century, preserves many important works of art, the cathedral of San Giovanni Battista, built on a preexisting Christian building and restored during the century, the Cross of Calvin, realized in 1541 in order to commemorate the expulsion of the calvinists from the region and the municipality palace, in Neo-classical style, overlooking Chanoux square.

Map

This town web page has been visited 32,926 times.

Choose language

italiano

english