Aosta

Aosta Aoste
Comune
Città di Aosta Ville d'Aoste
Aerial view of Aosta
Coat airms
Aosta Location o Aosta in Italy
Coordinates: 45°44′N 7°19′E
Kintra	Italy
Region	Valle d'Aosta
Province	nane
Frazioni	Arpuilles, Cache, Champailler, Entrebin, Excenex, Laravoire, Porossan, Seyssinod, Signayes, Vignole, Cossan
Govrenment
• Mayor	Bruno Giordano
Area
• Total	21.37 km2 (8.25 sq mi)
Elevation	583 m (1,913 ft)
Population  (21 December 2009)
• Total	35,061
• Density	1,600/km2 (4,200/sq mi)
Demonym(s)	Italian: aostani French: Aostois
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	11100
Diallin code	0165
Patron saunt	St Gratus
Saunt day	7 September
Website	Offeecial wabsteid

Aosta listen  (French: Aoste, Arpitan: Aoûta) is the principal ceety o the bilingual Valle d'Aosta in the Italian Alps, 110 km (68 mi) north-northwast o Turin. It is situatit near the Italian entrance o the Mont Blanc Tunnel, at the confluence o the Buthier an the Dora Baltea, an at the junction o the Great and Little St. Bernard routes. Aosta is no the caipital o the province, as these functions are shared bi the region an the communes.

History

Airches o the Roman Theatre.

Aosta wis settled in proto-historic times an later became a centre o the Salassi, mony o whom wur killed or sauld intae slavery bi the Romans in 25 BC. The campaign wis led bi Marcus Terentius Varro, who then foondit the Roman colony o Augusta Praetoria Salassorum, hoosin 3,000 retired veterans. Efter 11 BC Aosta became the caipital o the Alpes Graies ("Grey Alps") province o the Empire. Its position at the confluence o twa rivers, at the end o the Great an the Little St Bernard Pass, gave it considerable military importance, an its layoot wis that o a Roman military camp.

Efter the faw o the Wastren Empire, the ceety wis conquered, in turn, bi the Burgundians, the Ostrogoths, the Byzantines. The Lombards, who haed annexed it tae their Italian kinrick, wur expelled bi the Frankish Empire unner Pepin the Short. Unner his son, Charlemagne, Aosta acquired importance as a post on the Via Francigena, leadin frae Aachen tae Italy. Efter 888 AD it wis pairt o the renewed Kinrick o Italy unner Arduin o Ivrea an Berengar o Friuli.

In the 10t century Aosta became pairt o the Kinrick o Burgundy. Efter the faw o the latter in 1032, it became pairt o the lands o Coont Humbert I o the Hoose o Savoy. Efter the creation o the coonty o Savoy, wi its caipital in Chambéry, Aosta led the unification o Italy.

Unner the Hoose o Savoy, Aosta wis grantit a special status that it maintained when the new Italian Republic wis proclaimit in 1948.

Transport

Aosta railway station, opened in 1886, forms pairt o the Chivasso–Aosta railwey, an is an aw a junction station for a branch line tae nearbi Pré-Saint-Didier, in the Valdigne, on the wey towards Courmayeur.

Aosta Airport is a short distance tae the east o the ceety.

Internaitional relations

Aosta is twinned wi:

• Albertville, Fraunce
• Narbonne, Fraunce
• Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Fraunce
• San Giorgio Morgeto, Italy
• Sinaia, Romanie
• Martigny, Swisserland

References

•  This airticle incorporates text frae a publication nou in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "^{article name needed}". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further readin

• Carlo Promis, Le antichità di Aosta, (Turin, 1862);
• Édouard Bérard, Atti della Società di Archeologia di Torino, iii. 119 seq.; Notizie degli Scavi, passim;
• Alfredo d'Andrade, Relazione dell' Ufficio Regionale per la conservazione dei Monumenti del Piemonte e della Liguria (Turin, 1899), 46 seq.

Freemit airtins

• Virtual Museum Vallée (VMV), virtual museum o Aosta ceety Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
• Augusta Praetoria Archived 2009-01-24 at the Wayback Machine Site plan & photos from the Aosta Valley Regional Authority.
• Ancient Places TV: HD Video of Aosta, Italy Archived 2012-03-10 at the Wayback Machine