WHERE: in Saint-Martin-de-Corléans street.

 

HISTORY: In this area of around ten thousand square meters, located east of Aosta and accidentally discovered in 1969, a megalithic complex of global significance was found, with findings of six historical periods (3000-1100 BC). The site includes a necropolis dating back to the late Neolithic (then used until the Iron Age), maybe a remaining of the mythical city of Cordelia, founded by the “Salassi”, population bent by the Romans. The finds consist of anthropomorphic stone slabs and engraved glassware and ceramics. Today they are kept in the Regional Archaeological Museum and in the future will be moved to the center being built on the site.

The current intervention plans to open a museum for a total of three thousand two hundred square meters, while in an area of ??over four thousand square meters findings will be placed in their original context, with visit itineraries. There will then be a study and documentation center, and also a square of three thousand square meters of surface, intended for meeting and social gathering purposes.

The area of Saint- Martin-de-Corléans is, along with the Cromlech of the Little St. Bernard pass, one of only two megalithic sites present in north-western Italy.

 

Web site LoveVdA: http://www.lovevda.it/file/displayfile/63658 

Events: http://museoarcheologicoregionale.com/select/ 

 

Megalithic Area of Saint-Martin de Corléans

Saint-Martin de Corléans Street - 11100 AOSTA (AO)

Telephone: (+39) 0165552420

Fax: (+39) 0165552556

E-mail: beniculturali@regione.vda.it