What to do and see in Aosta, Valle d'Aosta: The Best Things to do Good for a Rainy Day

January 26, 2022 Margarita Chappel

Aosta (Italian: [aˈɔsta] ( listen); French: Aoste [ɔst]; Arpitan: Aoûta; Latin: Augústa Prætṓrĭa Salassṓrum) is the principal city of Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, 110 km (68 mi) 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, because Aosta Valley is the only Italian region not divided into provinces. Provincial administrative functions are instead shared by the region and the communes.
Restaurants in Aosta

1. Guida della Valle d'Aosta

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Guida della Valle d'Aosta

Guided visits in Aosta and in the famous Aosta castles with official tourist guides.

2. Grosjean Vins

Frazione Ollignan 2, 11020 Quart, Aosta Italy +39 0165 775791 [email protected] http://www.grosjeanvins.it/
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Grosjean Vins

On of the most important viticultural reality of Valle d'Aosta. Grosjean family is pioneer in organic wine making.

3. Criptoportico Forense

Piazza Giovanni XXIII, Aosta Italy +39 335 798 1505 http://www.lovevda.it/it/banca-dati/8/monumenti-romani/aosta/criptoportico-forense/1259
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Criptoportico Forense

The way leading to the Cryptoporticus is located in the garden on John XXIII square. It is a monumental building marking a sacred area for cult. It is a basement building with a series of windows. It was horseshoe-shaped and is formed by two parallel tunnels with barrel vaults, supported by sturdy pillars. The Cryptoporticus dates back to the Augustan age: it served mainly as a supporting structure of the land level that in that part of the city formed a slight slope from North to South, therefore creating a gap between the sacred area and the adjacent legal area. The colonnade above him served as a cornice for the two temples that stood side by side on a single podium, which could be reached by a staircase. The long east side of the Eastern Temple is well-preserved, and it can be seen nowadays, under the archdeaconry building. The Cryptoporticus therefore formed a covered walkway surrounding the sacred buildings. Its galleries represented an extension of the Forum colonnade, whose main function was to protect from rain and snow in winter and from sun in summer. During the third and fourth centuries, it probably turned to be used for goods storage.

Reviewed By wisewonderer1223 - Bristol, United Kingdom

We enjoyed our visit as part of a multi pass ticket that includes the Teatro ruins and the museum plus. The screen presentation and then to see the the well preserved ruins gives a fantastic perspective on how Aosta used to be in Roman times and how people lived then, facinating.

4. Il Chiosco Dell'artigianato

Piazza Porta Pretoria, 11100, Aosta Italy http://www.les-alpes.it/it/client/32.htm
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Il Chiosco Dell'artigianato

5. Collegiata dei Santi Pietro e Orso

Piazzetta Sant'Orso, 11100, Aosta Italy +39 0165 262026 http://www.lovevda.it/it/banca-dati/8/chiese-e-santuari/aosta/collegiata-e-chiostro-di-sant-orso/720
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Collegiata dei Santi Pietro e Orso

6. Museo Archeologico Regionale

Piazza Pietro Leonardo Roncas 12, 11100, Aosta Italy +39 0165 275902 [email protected] http://www.lovevda.it/it/banca-dati/8/musei/aosta/museo-archeologico-regionale/723
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Museo Archeologico Regionale

APRIRA' AL PUBBLICO qualora LA REGIONE VALLE D'AOSTA SIA "ZONA GIALLA" con orario continuato 10-17 nei soli giorni feriali, secondo le disposizioni MIBACT - The Regional Archaeological Museum (MAR) is housed in a prestigious historical building built on the foundations of the Roman tower that flanked the northern gate of the city. At first Vaudan Hall, then the seat of the Monastery of the Visitation, founded in 1633, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, after the Napoleonic suppression of the convent, it became the seat of the barracks. The set-up of the Museum, documented by a rich collection of archaeological finds, furnishings and personal artifacts, the result of the excavations conducted for decades on behalf of the Autonomous Region of Aosta Valley, is divided into a chronological path from the ancient phase of the Mesolithic (7000 - 6000 BC) until the seventh century AD. It covers various topics related to religion, daily life and public life.

Reviewed By eemori

This museum is an excellent antiquities museum worth a special visit. The focus of the museum is display and explication of the Roman ruins (forum,walls, entrance gates, some domicile artifacts). What is remarkable about this museum is the variety of displays (some diagrams, some film, some narrative, glass floors the visitor can walk on and stare down into excavation site). The curatorial notes offer more than the usual neutral scientific description of the artifacts. The personalities and careers of archeologists are descried, and most interesting are the quotations from various authors (Plato, Homer, Proust, Borges et cetera) musing on people’s relationship to time and civic environment. The museum offers a day pass which a visitor can use to enter all the sites including the underground grotto which has a film viewing space to watch a short film about the excavation processes over the past several centuries.

7. Ufficio del Turismo

Piazza Porta Praetoria, 3, Aosta Italy +39 0165 236627 [email protected] http://www.lovevda.it/it/banca-dati/4/uffici-regionali-del-turismo/aosta/ufficio-del-turismo-aosta/2326
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Ufficio del Turismo

8. PUB BEAUTIFUL

Via Croce di Citta' 65, 11100, Aosta Italy +39 0165 44060 [email protected]
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PUB BEAUTIFUL

We are in a center of Aosta near a Museo and Cattedral ...Special salade and sandwiches...more football and we love Rugby...you are welcome always

9. Museo Manzetti

Via Federico Chabod 62 c/o Centro Espositivo Saint-Bénin, 11100, Aosta Italy +39 339 357 4718 http://www.manzetti.eu/
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Museo Manzetti

10. Groscidac

Strada Paravera 4, 11100, Aosta Italy +39 0165 237603 http://www.groscidac.com
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Groscidac

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