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  ITALIA - Planning Your Trip - Italy by Regions - Aosta Valley
Aosta is the capital of the region, which is ruled by a special statute, where the Italian and the French languages are officially recognized.
Important traces of the Roman Age can be found in Aosta: the city walls, the theater, Augustus’s Arch, the Pretorian Gate.
Many are the fortified castles in the Aosta Valley; moist of them are in perfect conditions and open to visitors; many have become museums of local history.
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 Comune di Aosta
Prima riunione della Direzione strategica del Piano strategico della Città di Aosta
Introduzione del "Mandato Informatico" al Comune di Aosta
Il Comune di Aosta aderisce all'associazione "Vado al minimo: spreco meno, vivo meglio"
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aosta
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Aosta is signed to a letter sent to Leo I by the second
Aosta has 82,000 Catholics 87 parishes, 188 secular priests, 24 regulars, 55 seminarists, 566
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Aosta has 82,000 Catholics, 87 parishes, 188 secular priests, 24 regulars, 55 seminarists, 566 churches, chapels, or oratories.
Anselm (1033-1109), Archbishop of Canterbury, was a native of Aosta.
Bernard de Menthon (1008), Archdeacon of Aosta, founded the hospice on the Alps named after him, as a relief to pilgrims in the passage of the Alps.
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 Holiday apartments - rent apartments - Aosta - Aosta Valley :: CASA DE GIORGIS
Aosta is a town rich in traditions and historical and cultural Roman and Medieval remains, set in an alpine environment at the foot of the highest tops in Europe.
Aosta (about 35.000 inhabitants) is the most important town of Aosta Valley (a self-governing region) and lies in a large basin surrounded by the Mount Emilius (3559 metres), the Viou (2856 metres) and the Nona summits (3142 metres).
Aosta keeps, from a topographic point of view, a Roman town-planning: a rectangular fence of walls (nearly all replaced in the the Medieval Ages by towers and churches) divided in "insulae" by perpendicular streets looking like a chessboard.
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 Aosta Valley, Italy
The autonomous region of the Aosta valley lies in the northwest of Italy - in the deeply eroded valley of the Dora Baltea and its beautiful side valleys.
The Aosta valley, strongly fortified by the Romans, became in 1191 part of Savoy, and together they passed temporarily to France in the early 19th century and later to Piedmont.
The inhabitants of the Aosta valley speak a Franco-Provençal dialect; the use of pure French is declining.
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 GeoNative - Franco-Provençal - Aosta
It is still spoken in France (historical provinces of Savoie and Lyonnais, north of Dauphiné, parts of Bourgogne and Franche-Comté), Italy (Aosta Valey, and a small community in Faeto and Celle S. Vito in the Province of Foggia in Apulia, far isolated in the south), and in Switzerland, in most of French-speaking Switzerland.
Aosta Valley is a small region of northwest Italy (3.200 km2 and 112.000 inhabitants), with a degree of autonomy.
Aosta Harana eskualde autonomo txiki bat da Italiako ipar-mendebaldean (3.200 km2 eta 112.000 biztanle).
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 Aosta, Italy
Aosta has a rich history and this history is evident in the numerous architectural monuments that it presents to its visitors.
Outside the Roman walls is the tall, historic church of Aosta, the Collegiata di Sant'Orso.
The relationship between the two powers was at the centre of regional life for the whole era, given that the descendants of the House of Savoy managed to subjugate the local nobility.
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 Aosta Information
Aosta (French: Aoste) is the principal city of the bilingual Aosta Valley in the Italian Alps, 48 miles north-northwest of Turin.
Aosta is not the capital of the eponymous province, as these functions are shared by the region and the communes.
The Cathedral of Aosta, built in the 4th century and replaced in the 11th century by a new edifice dedicate to the Madonna.
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 TangoItalia - Valle d'Aosta - Aosta Valley travel
Aosta, the regional capital and the only province of the Valley, is a city rich in history.
For Aosta the Middle Ages were anything but dark: as an important centre of commercial traffic with France and Switzerland, the city enjoyed a long period of prosperity.
Aosta, well situated in the centre of the valley, is the capital of this region which has enjoyed a certain degree of administrative authority since 1947.
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 Val d’Aosta
This area was conquered during the time of Caesar Augustus and was named Augusta Praetoria, from which the modern name of Aosta is derived.
During the middle ages, the area was controlled by the Challant family, who left their mark by building many of the regions castles, and the House of Savoy, later to become the kings of Italy.
For a small city there are plenty of large Roman ruins to explore, giving Aosta the nickname "Rome of the Alps".
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 Val d'Aosta
After 1820 the provincial society of Aosta showed a certain openness (the Valley, a region enclosed by tall mountains, in its long history went through long periods of isolation), where the French language dominated unopposed and the movement for its abolition as the official language had not yet begun.
This is the context in which a literary group was formed in Aosta in the first decades of the nineteenth century, socially homogenous but poetically heterogenous, around the Feuille d'Annonces d'Aoste, the region's first paper, founded in 1841.
Cerlogne's linguistic and poetic lesson, irreplaceable and tireless, which took place in the most complete isolation and indifference on the part of official culture, remained unheeded and unique throughout the whole second half of the nineteenth century.
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 Aosta - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
Aosta (French: Aoste) is the principal city and episcopal see of the Aosta Valley in the Italian Alps, 48 miles north-northwest of Turin, in Piedmont.
Aosta was settled in proto-historic times and later became a Celt-Ligurian city of the Salassi.
Under the Savoy House Aosta was granted a special status that it mantained after the new Italian Republic was proclaimed in 1948.
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 Aosta Hotels - Aosta, Italy
Aosta Hotels - 22 hotels from 50€ per room per night.
The hotel is located in the quaint village of Quart, 7 km from the centre of Aosta, and offers its guests the opportunity to enjoy absolute privacy and relaxation.
The youth hostel "Il Casello" is located near the train station of Verrès, only 30 km from Aosta.
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 Aosta Valley Region (Italy)
The coat of arms was however already used by the Province of Aosta and the region since it was created after the Second World War.
The coat of arms of the city of Aosta and the region of Valle d'Aosta are different.
The Gonfalone and the Coat of Arms were adopted be Presidential decree of the 13th Juny 1987.
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 Aosta Italie cheap hotel bookings   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The neiges d'antan hotel is a refuge for those who, exhausted by the pace and organised chaos of the city, are in search of splendid solitude; here you may enjoy a corner of real mountain life and tranquillity at the feet of the Monte Cervino, the Gran Becca and the Grandes Murailles.
Aosta-the most “Roman” city after Rome, at the centre of AOSTA VALLEY, share with Switzerland and France the highest and the most beautiful mountains in Europe.
The Hotel is situated near the pine-wood at an altutude of 1200 metres, 15 km from Aosta or 7 km from the "Aosta Ovest" motorway intersection towards Mont Blanc.
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 therucksack.net - Hiking, Trekking and Alpinism
The Valley of Aosta is enframed by some of the Alps' most famous mountains and mountain ranges: Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa, Matterhorn and Gran Paradiso.
Aosta of course is also served by public transport, e.g.
Also a must is Aosta itself and the Salamis, the Speck and the smoked Ham of the area.
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 AllRefer.com - Aosta, Italy (Italian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
36,339), capital of Valle d'Aosta region and of Aosta prov., NW Italy, near the junction of the Great and Little St. Bernard roads.
Aosta was given as a fief to Count Humbert I, the founder of the Savoy dynasty; the cadet line of the house bore the title of duke of Aosta.
Roman remains in Aosta include walls and gates, a majestic triumphal arch honoring Augustus, a theater, and an amphitheater.
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 WineCountry.it - Aosta Valley wine region of Italy
Another aspect of the social life that has traditionally set Aosta apart from other Italian regions are the mixture of skills that the inhabitants were forced to develop, lacking regular trade routes to the outside world in the face of the impassibility of winter bound alps.
Thus, a traditional valdostano, or inhabitant of the Aosta Valley used to be part farmer, part animal breeder, and part artisan.
The Aosta Valley grapes and wines are primarily determined by the characteristic predominant soil composed of a rocky, gritty, semi-fertile mixture and by high altitude.
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 Aosta | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Aosta (Italian: Aosta, French: Aoste) is the principal city of the bilingual Aosta Valley in the Italian Alps, 110km north-northwest of Turin.
It is situated near the Italian entrance of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, at the confluence of the Buthier and the Dora Baltea, and at the junction of the Great and Little St. Bernard routes.
Aosta is not the capital of the province, as these functions are shared by the region and the communes.
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 Welcome to Aosta Valley   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Aosta Valley is the smallest Italian region and is located at the "hub" of the Alps, surrounded by Europe's four highest mountains (Mont Blanc-Monte Bianco, Matterhorn-Cervino, Monte Rosa and Gran Paradiso), all over four thousand metres high.
The region is like an island among the mountains, and, over the centuries, this has conditioned its history, language, and administrative and political life and encouraged the development of an original collective identity.
Summer or Winter, on the ski slopes or inside the keep of some historic castle, the Aosta Valley can't wait to meet you.
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 Valle d'Aosta
the form of the territory occupied by the region; Aosta is a city founded by Romans in 25 b.C. and dedicated with the name Augusta Praetoria to the emperor Augustus.
During the Middle Ages came to the end continuous invasions of Ostrogoths, Byzantines, Longobards and Franks and the anarchy, and began the feudalism, which traces could still be observed in numerous castles.
In 1031 Umberto Biancamano received from the emperor of Germany the title of count of Aosta: thus, the rein of Savoia began.
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 Valle d'Aosta - The Regions of Italy
The aspect of Val of Aosta is that typical of the tall mountain with narrow and rocky throats, tall points, snow and perennial glaciers, colored lawns, pastures, woods, small villages, typical houses, luxurious hotels and roads with steep inclinations.
Placed in the peaks of Europe, Valley of Aosta is one of the tourist zones more cared and famous of Europe.
Around a third alive in the city of Aosta, the rest in small countries and suburbs around the city.
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Hostellerie du Cheval Blanc is located in Aosta, 500 metres from the old town and 800 metres from the cableway that runs to the ski slopes of Pila.
Hotel Diana is in the territory of Pollein, in a dominating position on the Aosta plain, a few minutes from the main tourist resorts of the region.
Just 2 km away from the Aosta – Pila cableway, it is an ideal base for breathtaking excursions in the nature of the Aosta Valley.
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 Valle d'Aosta travel guide - Wikitravel
The Aosta Valley (Val d'Aosta) is the Italian region in the Alps where there is Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa and Gran Paradiso.
Aosta Valley, which is the smallest of all italian regions, lies in the northwest of the country.
The most spoken languages in Aosta Valley are French and Italian.
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Aosta, heart of the region of Aosta Valley, regional capital, institutional centre, cultural and touristic centre.
Roman town, medieaval, neo-classicist, but also a modern town, it lives in the present and looks forward to the future at the same time clinging on to its solid roots.
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