Fort Bard
Fort Bard, also known as Bard Fort, is a fortified complex built in the 19th century by the House of Savoy on a rocky prominence above Bard, a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy.Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Email: info@fortedibard.it
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: fortified complex in the Aosta Valley, Italy
- Also known as: “Bard Fort”
- Address: Via Vittorio Emanuele II 89, Bard, 11020
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Museum of the Alps and Town hall of Bard.
Town hall of Bard
Town hall
Photo: Patafisik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Town hall of Bard is situated 160 metres east of Fort Bard.
Archéoparc
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Archéoparc is an archaeological site, which is situated 340 metres southeast of Fort Bard.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bard and Perloz.
Perloz
Village
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Perloz is a town and comune in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy. The population from the 2011 census was at 453. Perloz is situated 5 km east of Fort Bard.
Carema
Photo: Laurom, Public domain.
Carema is a village of 750 people in the Piedmont region of Italy. The village of Carema lies in a beautiful sunny valley north west of Piedmont and marks the divide between Piedmont and the Aosta Valley.
Fort Bard
- Categories: castle, museum, military museum building, historical park museum, palazzo museum, private museum, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Bard, Aosta Valley, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.60821° or 45° 36′ 30″ northLongitude
7.74458° or 7° 44′ 41″ eastElevation
451 metres (1,480 feet)Open location code
8FQ9JP5V+7ROpenStreetMap ID
node 1746633413OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
11152639Wikidata ID
Q2255867
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arpitan to Ukrainian—“Fort Bard” goes by many names.
- Arpitan: “Fôrt de Bard”
- Bulgarian: “Бар (крепост)”
- Bulgarian: “Бар”
- Chinese: “巴爾堡”
- Dutch: “Fort Bard”
- French: “fort de Bard”
- French: “Fort de Bard”
- German: “Festung von Bard”
- Hebrew: “מצודת ברד”
- Italian: “forte di Bard”
- Italian: “Forte di Bard”
- Japanese: “バルド要塞”
- Japanese: “フォート・バール”
- Macedonian: “Тврдина Бард”
- Macedonian: “Тврдината Бар”
- Piemontese: “Fòrt ëd Bar”
- Piemontese: “Fòrt ëd Bard”
- Russian: “Бар”
- Russian: “Барская крепость”
- Russian: “Крепость Бар”
- Spanish: “Fuerte de Bard”
- Turkish: “Bard Hisarı”
- Ukrainian: “Бар (фортеця)”
- Ukrainian: “Бар”
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