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The Aosta Valley (French: Vallée d'Aoste [vale dɔst]; [a] Italian: Valle d'Aosta [ˈvalle daˈɔsta]; Arpitan: Val d'Aoûta) [b] is a mountainous autonomous region [6] in northwestern Italy. It is bordered by Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, to the west; by Valais, Switzerland, to the north; and by Piedmont, Italy, to the south and east.
The Autostrada A5 or Autostrada della Valle d'Aosta ("Aosta Valley motorway"), in French Autoroute de la Vallée d'Aoste, is an autostrada (Italian for "motorway") in Italy located in the regions of Piedmont and Aosta Valley, which connects Turin to France via Ivrea and Aosta, through the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
The Valle d'Aosta is Italy's smallest winemaking region both in terms of size and production with only about 330,000 cases produced annually in the region and only 36,000 cases produced under the DOC label. Seventy five percent of the area's production is red wine made mostly from the Pinot noir, Gamay and Petit Rouge varieties.
Aosta lies on the crossroad of two major trans-alpine trunk roads: national road 26 (Italian: SS26, French: RN26 [15]) connecting the city of Chivasso to Little St Bernard Pass on the Italy-France border, and national road 27 (Italian: SS27, French: RN27 [16]) connecting the city of Aosta to the Great St Bernard Pass on the Italy-Switzerland ...
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Bard (French pronunciation:; Valdôtain: Bar; Issime Walser: Board) is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy. It is part of the Unité des communes valdôtaines du Mont-Rose [3] and has a population of 134. [4] It is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia ("The most beautiful villages of Italy"). [5]
English: The bridge arch of the Roman Pont d'Aël in the Cogne Valley, a side valley of the Aosta valley, Italian Alpes. The aqueduct bridge was built in 3 BC. The aqueduct bridge was built in 3 BC. It carried water to agricultural lands and to washings plants of nearby gold and iron mines.