Étroubles

Halfway along the road from Aosta to the Great St Bernard Pass, Étroubles has watched Roman troops, Via Francigena pilgrims and Napoleon pass through; he slept here on 20 May 1800. For centuries its men earned a living guiding travellers over the pass. Since 2005 the whole village has been an open-air museum of contemporary art on the theme of the journey.

Highlights

• À Étroubles, avant toi sont passés..., artworks scattered through the village
• The Romanesque bell tower of a church that has disappeared
• Tour de la Vachère, a 12th-century tower on Roman foundations
• The 1853 cooperative dairy, now a museum of fontina and butter
• The old communal oven at Éternod, still fired for black bread

Summary based on Wikipedia and Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA), written with AI assistance.