Aosta
How to Get Around Aosta
Getting Around
Aosta is small, flat and easy, and the valley around it is well served.
The centre is the Roman rectangle, crossed on foot in fifteen minutes and largely pedestrian.
Parking is outside the walls and straightforward.
The station is a few minutes from the centre, on a branch line from Turin.
Buses are the real network here: frequent services run up every side valley and to Courmayeur, and they are the way to reach the mountains without a car.
A cable car from the city climbs to Pila, the local ski area, in about twenty minutes.
A car helps for the castles and the higher villages and is unnecessary in the city.
Mountain roads close with snow from autumn to early summer.
Connections from Aosta
How easily, and at what cost, can you combine the region’s main destinations?
| Route | Best option | One-way time | Travel Smart take |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aosta and Cogne | Bus | ~1 hr typical, not a timetable | Comfortable as a day trip. Aosta works well as a base for Cogne. |
| Aosta and Courmayeur | Bus | ~1 hr typical, not a timetable | Comfortable as a day trip. Aosta works well as a base for Courmayeur. |
Cost compares the options for each route rather than quoting a fare: inexpensive means the price is not a factor in planning, moderate cost means a real line in the budget, and the expensive option is one worth weighing against the alternative. Fares change from year to year; the ranking between them does not.