Aosta Valley Airport

Aosta Valley Airport formerly Corrado Gex Airport (Italian: Aeroporto della Valle d'Aosta, French: Aéroport de la Vallée d'Aoste) (IATA: AOT, ICAO: LIMW) is an airport located in Saint-Christophe and serving Aosta, a city in the Aosta Valley region of Italy.

Air Vallée previously had its head office on the property of Aosta Airport.

Airlines and destinations

As of November 2013 there are currently no scheduled flights to and from Aosta.

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Aosta

Aosta ([aˈɔsta]; French: Aoste - [ɔst]Arpitan: Aoûta; Latin: Augusta Prætoria Salassorum) is the principal city of Aosta Valley, a bilingual region in the Italian Alps, 110 km (68 mi) north-northwest of Turin. It is situated near the Italian entrance of the Mont Blanc Tunnel, at the confluence of the Buthier and the Dora Baltea (French: Doire baltée), and at the junction of the Great and Little St. Bernard routes. Aosta is not the capital of the province, because Aosta Valley is the only Italian region not divided into provinces. Provincial administrative functions are instead shared by the region and the communes.

History

Aosta was settled in proto-historic times and later became a centre of the Salassi, many of whom were killed or sold into slavery by the Romans in 25 BC. The campaign was led by Terentius Varro, who then founded the Roman colony of Augusta Praetoria Salassorum, housing 3,000 retired veterans. After 11 BC Aosta became the capital of the Alpes Graies ("Grey Alps") province of the Empire. Its position at the confluence of two rivers, at the end of the Great and the Little St Bernard Pass, gave it considerable military importance, and its layout was that of a Roman military camp.