Just outside the old village the via delle Gallie is still there: a stretch of Roman road cut into the rock above the Dora Baltea, with a stone arch four metres thick and the milestone marking the thirty-sixth mile from Aosta. It is one of the best preserved Roman remains in the valley, and you walk on it.
The village stands where it does out of necessity: in 1176 a huge landslide destroyed the town and its first church, and it was rebuilt tight against the rock wall. Its 2,624 residents enjoy a climate mild enough to have earned Donnas the nickname of the Nice of the Aosta Valley; on the shaded side, high above, the hexagonal eleventh-century tower of Pramotton keeps watch.
Ecomuseo della latteria turnaria di Treby · Museo della vite e del vino · Torre di Pramotton and 1 more
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Next up: Saint Peter in Chains and the chestnut festival, Sunday 1 August
Nearest airport: Torino Caselle, 45 km away
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📅 Every year, on 1 August
On 1 August Donnas celebrates Saint Peter in Chains; at the start of October, instead, the grape and chestnut festival celebrates the local variety that may give the town its name.
Ecomuseo della latteria turnaria di Treby The 1897 co-operative dairy, where members took turns carrying home the day's cheese. 
Museo della vite e del vino In the cellars that held the barrels of the first DOC wine of the Aosta Valley, among Donnas's terraces. 
Torre di Pramotton A twelfth-century hexagonal tower at 540 metres, signalling to the Pont-Saint-Martin castle and the fort of Ba 
arco romano di Donnas The consular road cut into the rock, the stone arch and milestone XXXVI from Augusta Praetoria. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Donnas, but an easy day trip away.
