{"id":16807,"date":"2016-07-18T11:56:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T09:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/castelli-valle-aosta\/"},"modified":"2021-04-08T09:09:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T07:09:22","slug":"aosta-valley-castles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/aosta-valley-castles\/","title":{"rendered":"Aosta Valley Castles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the <strong>Aosta Valley castles<\/strong> with a licensed tour guide for a journey in some of the most beautiful castles of the Alps.<\/p>\n<p>Aosta Valley has always been a compulsory passage towards alpine passes, and since it wasn&#8217;t controlled by any authority, it was easy to take the land and appoint yourself as its lord. For these reasons the region has many castles, towers and fortified houses.<\/p>\n<h2>The medieval castles<\/h2>\n<p>The first castles were built during the 11th and 12th centuries and comprise a square tower, a chapel and boundary wall. <strong>Graines<\/strong>, <strong>Ch\u00e2tel-Argent<\/strong> and <strong>Cly castles<\/strong> belong to this kind of castles.<br \/>\nDuring the following centuries castles not only had a defensive function, but also a residential one; hence, a new kind of castles called \u201cmonobloc\u201d (<strong>Ussel and Verr\u00e8s castles<\/strong>) were built. At that same time the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/visite\/fenis-castle\/\">Fenis castle<\/a><\/strong> was built, which linked the defensive function (its towers, boundary walls and loopholes) with the residential function (frescoed courtyard and chapel).<br \/>\nIn the 15th century the luxurious <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/visite\/issogne-castle\/\">Issogne castle<\/a><\/strong> was built, devoid of defensive structures.<\/p>\n<h2>The castles of the savoy family<\/h2>\n<p>The Sarre Royal castle and Savoy castle are strictly related to the summer holidays of the Royal family in Aosta Valley.<br \/>\nThe <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/visite\/sarre-royal-castle\/\">Sarre Royal castle<\/a><\/strong> was bought by King Viktor Emmanuel II, the Hunter King, in 1869 and was a headquarter for hunting expeditions in the Gran Paradiso Valleys.<br \/>\nThe <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/visite\/savoy-castle-in-gressoney-saint-jean\/\">Savoy castle<\/a><\/strong> in Gressoney-Saint-Jean is strictly related to Queen Margherita of Savoy and her mountain expeditions on Mount Rosa at the beginning of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>A territory rich of medieval castles that should be discovered! An itinerary through the central valley to taste charming places rich of history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The guided tour in a castle with an official tour guide permits to have skip-the-line tickets<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discover the beautiful castles of the <strong>Aosta Valley<\/strong> with a<strong> tour guide<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Call me to organize<strong> the most suitable tour to visit the Aosta Valley!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover the Aosta Valley castles with a licensed tour guide for a journey in some of the most beautiful castles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16809,"parent":0,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"page_category":[204],"class_list":["post-16807","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","page_category-pagina-archivio-visite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16807"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17189,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16807\/revisions\/17189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticaosta.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_category?post=16807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}