Maison Colombot

Aosta


This sweetly old-fashioned place has six rooms with rustic furniture, wood floors and ceilings, and vintage prints on the walls (plus electric kettles with tea). It has a great location a few steps from shop- and restaurant-lined Via Edouard Aubert.


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1. Criptoportico Forense

0.22 MILES

What remains of the city's Augustan forum mostly lies beneath the 'modern' piazza, although you can visit its colonnaded underground walkway (known as a…

2. Museo Archeologico Regionale

0.22 MILES

Aosta’s little city museum does an excellent job of detailing the city’s Roman history with a scale model of Aosta’s Roman layout plus various…

3. Cattedrale Santa Maria Assunta

0.22 MILES

The neoclassical facade of Aosta's cathedral belies the impressive Gothic interior. Inside, the carved 15th-century walnut-wood choir stalls are…

4. Teatro Romano

0.4 MILES

Part of the Roman theatre's 22m-high facade is still intact. In summer, performances are held in the better-preserved lower section.

5. Torre dei Fromage

0.43 MILES

Next to the Porta Praetoria, this imposing tower is named not for the love of French cheese (fromage) but rather after the last descendent of the medieval…

7. Torre dei Balivi

0.46 MILES

This former 12th-century prison once formed a significant corner of Aosta's Roman wall.

8. Basilica Paleocristiana di San Lorenzo

0.53 MILES

Beneath the old parish church of the village, you can glimpse the dusty layers of early Christian history. Excavations have revealed a small cruciform…