1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
AOSTA (anc. Augusta Praetoria Salassorum), a town and episcopal see of Piedmont, Italy, in the province of Turin, 80 m. N.N.W. by rail of the town of Turin, and 48 m. direct, situated 1910 ft. above sea-level, at the confluence of the Buthier and the Dora Baltea, and at the junction of the Great and Little St Bernard routes. Pop. (1901) 7875. The cathedral, reconstructed in the nth century (to which one of its campanili and some architectural details belong), was much altered in the i4th and I7th; it has a rich tre…
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