Things to do
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Teatro romano
The theatre's southern facade still stands twenty-two metres high in the middle of the town, which is why Aosta reads as Roman from street level rather than from a dig.
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Arco di Augusto
A triumphal arch of 25 BC marking the founding of the colony, standing at the eastern approach on the road to the passes. It has never been buried or moved.
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Castello di Fenis
The most complete castle in the valley, with a double ring of walls and turrets and a frescoed courtyard. It was a residence rather than a fortress, which is why it survives whole.
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Dora Baltea
The glacier-fed river running the length of the Aosta valley, and one of the most used rafting waters in Italy. The stretch between Morgex and Pre-Saint-Didier is where the centres put in, and sections below reach grade four when the melt is running.
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Parco nazionale del Gran Paradiso
Italy's first national park, created in 1922 out of a royal hunting reserve, and the reason the alpine ibex still exists. The valleys south of Aosta run into it and the animals are visible from the paths.