Bard is the smallest municipality in the Aosta Valley. It is located near a gorge near the entrance to the valley, where the Dora Baltea valley touches its narrowest point. At the point where the river takes a sharp turn, a rock rises on which the nineteenth-century fortress is located. Between Verrès and Pont-Saint-Martin, the fort dominates the rocky outcrop overlooking the village of Bard, an obligatory passage on the Roman consular road of the Gauls.
At the foot of the fort is the village of Bard, connected to Hône by a bridge over the Dora. The area around today's village was inhabited since the Neolithic period, as evidenced by engravings on very large stones. From Bard, Roman times, the Via delle Gallie passed, the Roman consular road built by Augustus to connect the Po Valley with Gaul.
For a long time the dominion of the lordship of the Bard - whose influence extended throughout the nearby Champorcher valley - Bard, due to its strategic position, in the center of a deep and narrow gorge, was considered in ancient times a safe bulwark against invasions . The coat of arms of the municipality is borrowed from that of the lords of Bard: it is a talking coat of arms, in fact it represents the barbo (from the French bar), a freshwater fish of the genus Barbus (perhaps the Barbus barbus).
Bard
Address: Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 11020
Phone: 0125 803134
Site:
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