Barrier Dessus

Barrier Dessus is a hamlet in Gressan, Valle d’Aosta, Aosta Valley. Barrier Dessus is situated nearby to the hamlet Cretorion, as well as near Les Fleurs Dessous.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Aosta/Aoste railway station and Eremo di San Grato.

Aosta/Aoste railway station

Railway station

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Aosta/Aoste railway station is the main station serving the city and comune of Aosta, in the autonomous region of Aosta Valley, northwestern Italy. Opened in 1886, it forms part of the Chivasso–Ivrea–Aosta railway, and is also a junction station for a branch line to Pré-Saint-Didier, in the Valdigne, on the way towards Courmayeur. Aosta/Aoste railway station is situated 3 km north of Barrier Dessus.

Eremo di San Grato

Church

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Eremo di San Grato is a church.

Tour de Villa Castle

Castle

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The Tour de Villa Castle, also long called the Tower of the Poor, is a private castle in the municipality of Gressan, Aosta Valley. It stands on a modest granite rock on the gentle slope that also hosts the village, west of the Côte de Gargantua, the lateral moraine of the Pila basin glacier at the end of the Gressan stream impluvium.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pila and Aosta.

Pila

Village

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Pila is an Alpine ski-resort in the Aosta Valley region of northern Italy. It is a frazione of the comune of Gressan. There are more than 24 pistes, including 4 blue runs, 29 red runs and 4 black runs, with a pipe zone and a slopestyle zone.

Aosta

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Aosta is the capital of Italian autonomous region of Aosta Valley. The town is in a small valley with houses going up the slopes of the surrounding mountains.