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rind and strong grappa and set alight. The 'cup' has anything from two to 15 mouthpieces,
out of which friends take turns drinking as it's passed around.
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Banks abound on and around Piazza Chanoux.
)
Housed in the old
Aosta Tourist Office
(
www.lovevda.it
; Piazza Porta Praetoria 3;
9am-7pm;
Roman gateway to the city.
Farmacia Centrale
(
0165 26 22 05; Piazza Chanoux 35;
8.30am-12.30pm & 3.30-7.30pm Mon-
Fri)
Pharmacy.
Hospital
(Ospedale Regionale;
0165 30 41; Viale Ginevra 3)
0165 26 21 69; Corso Battaglione Aosta 169)
West of the town centre.
Police Station
(
Post Office
(Piazza Narbonne;
8.15am-6pm Mon-Fri, to 1pm Sat)
Getting There & Away
(two hours, up to 10 daily) and Courmayeur (€3.50, one hour, up to eight daily), as well as
to French destinations, including Chamonix. Services leave from Aosta's
bus station
(Via
Giorgio Carrel)
, virtually opposite the train station. To get to Breuil-Cervinia, take a Turin-
bound bus to Châtillon (30 minutes, eight daily), then a connecting bus (one hour, seven
daily) to the resort.
Aosta's train station, on Piazza Manzetti, is served by trains from most parts of Italy.
All trains to Turin (€8.40, two to 2½ hours, more than 10 daily) change at Ivrea.
Aosta is on the A5, which connects Turin with the Mont Blanc tunnel and France.
Another exit road north of the city leads to the Great St Bernard tunnel and on to Switzer-
land.
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Courmayeur
POP 2923 / ELEV 1224M
Flush up against France and linked by a dramatic cable-car ride to its cross-border cousin
in Chamonix, Courmayeur is an activity-oriented Aosta village that has grafted upmarket
