aosta

Piedmonte is far more affordable with all of the benefits of Aosta valley, and the bonus you can work in Turin or even commute to Milan.

If you want to go from say, Montreaux (Switzerland) to Evian (France) or Aosta (Italy) you can hop it your car and drive there in very little time.

I was in the Aosta valley (on the Italian side of the Swiss border, surrounded by the highest mountains in Europe) a few weeks ago in the middle of the winter.

I was in Aosta Valley, Italy this summer and they were using glacial melt water at midday, in a 40 C heat, to sprinkle vast fields of grass, to be made into hay.

Very schematic from region I live around - Geneva and Aosta are not that far on the map and seem close neighbours, but highest part of alps lies in between, passes can be brutal and far apart (>=2500m high, ie St Bernard pass from where famous dogs come from, can end up snowed anytime all year round and especially 2000 years ago, at least 6 months/year unpassable for carriages and dangerous for anything else).

In Aosta, Italy they were watering grass fields to be used for cow feed.

I traveled to Val d’Aosta on my own dime to write a story that I eventually came to call “Searching for Spadino.

I had drawn on the contemporaneous newspaper accounts in Val d’Aosta and Chamonix for my story.

It's always surprising to meet people abroad why come from Aosta.

Aosta is an occasional destination people on that side.

Aosta wines are often spectacular and worth seeking out.

There's more to Valle D'Aosta than a random murder, even though it's been exploited so much by the Italian media for so long everybody still knows about it.

I traveled to Val d’Aosta on my own dime to write a story that I eventually came to call “Searching for Spadino.

In two border regions (namely Trentino Alto Adige for German and Val d'Aosta for French) the population speaking the "other" language is so vast that there are special provisions that make those regions "bilingual", but in Friuli Slovenian is spoken by a minority and has much less relevance.

In Aosta, Italy they were watering grass fields to be used for cow feed.

I had drawn on the contemporaneous newspaper accounts in Val d’Aosta and Chamonix for my story.

It's always surprising to meet people abroad why come from Aosta.