Aosta

Fair of "Saint Ours"
Since more than a thousand years, on the 30th and 31st of January occurs, along the streets of the historical centre of Aosta, the Fair of "Saint Ours".
Each year near 1000 exhibitors show their works, some of which are real masterpieces.

At the Fair you can find all the products of the traditional and local arts: sculptures, carvings, laces, wicker baskets, wrought ironworks and stoneworks and so on.

Moreover, during the two-days Fair is possible to taste the best gastronomic and wine-making products of Aosta Valley. The Fair goes on with the "Veillà" (the waking between the 30th and the 31st): all the streets of the historical centre are lit, crowded and pervaded by folk music and the fragrances of the products to taste.

Castles
In Aosta Valley, during the Middle Ages, were built more than one hundred buildings among towers and castles; some of those are still well-preserved and inside them are kept beautiful frescoes and original furnishings.

The castles :

• Castle of Aymavilles
• Castle of Sarre
• Castle of Saint-Pierre
• Castle of Sarriod di La Tour
• Castle of Fénis
• Castle of Ussel
• Castle of Verrès
• Castle of Issogne
• Fort of Bard

Roman Aosta
Aosta is a Roman town which was founded in 25 B.C. with the name of Augusta Praetoria. Nowadays, the town still keeps several Roman as weel as medieval monuments.

All along the historical Centre, you can admire:

• the Arch of Augusto
• the collegiate church of Saint Ours
• the little deconsecrated church of Saint Lorenzo
• the Praetoria Door
• the Fromage Tower
• the Roman Theatre
• the Tower of "Lebbroso"
• the Castle of Bramafan