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Mont Blanc in Aosta Valley, the highest point in the European Union Blue Lake [11] and the Matterhorn. The Aosta Valley is an Alpine valley which, with its tributary valleys, includes the Italian slopes of Mont Blanc, Monte Rosa, Gran Paradiso and the Matterhorn; its highest peak is Mont Blanc (4,810 m or 15,780 ft).
Aosta is also served by the A5 motorway between Turin and Courmayeur. [17] Aosta railway station, opened in 1886, forms part of the Chivasso–Ivrea–Aosta railway. Direct trains only connect Aosta up to the city of Ivrea. The branch line to nearby Pré-Saint-Didier, in the Valdigne, on the way towards Courmayeur was closed in 2015.
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.
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.
Northern Italy (Italian: Italia settentrionale, Nord Italia, Alta Italia) is a geographical and cultural region in the northern part of Italy. [3] [4] The Italian National Institute of Statistics defines the region as encompassing the four northwestern regions of Piedmont, Aosta Valley, Liguria and Lombardy in addition to the four northeastern regions of Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Friuli ...
ISTAT code Municipality Population (2005) 007001 Allein: 243 007002 Antey-Saint-André: 602 007003 Aosta / Aoste: 34,270 007004 Arnad: 1,294 007005 Arvier: 848
This category lists articles on the cities, towns and other settlements, past and present, in the Aosta Valley, an autonomous region of Italy. Communes (municipalities) will also appear in Category:Communes of Aosta Valley. Frazioni (administrative subdivisions of communes) will also appear in Category:Frazioni of Aosta Valley.
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