Pont-Saint-Martin (Aosta Valley)

Pont-Saint-Martin
Country	Italy
region	Aosta Valley
Coordinates	45 ° 36 '  N , 7 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 45 ° 36 '0 "  N , 7 ° 48' 0"  E
height	345  m slm
surface	6 km²
Residents	3,638 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density	606 inhabitants / km²
Post Code	11026
prefix	0125
ISTAT number	007052
Patron saint	San Lorenzo
Website	www.comune.pontsaintmartin.ao.it

Pont-Saint-Martin

Pont-Saint-Martin (Walser German Martinstäg ) is an Italian commune ( comune ) with 3638 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the autonomous region of Aosta Valley .

geography

Pont-Saint-Martin lies at an altitude of 345  m slm on the orographic left side of the Dora Baltea at the entrance to the Aosta Valley , on the border with the Piedmont region . The Via Francigena runs through the village .

The neighboring communities are Carema ( TO ), Donnas and Perloz .

history

The name of the municipality comes from the Roman bridge Pont-Saint-Martin , which crosses the mountain stream Lys and over which all traffic rolled through the Aosta Valley for almost 2000 years. The Roman road Via Publica led over the 31 m long and 23 m high bridge from the Po plain over the little Saint Bernard to Gaul . It was still used for traffic in the 19th century.

The Roman city bridge

During the fascism , the place officially bore the Italianized name Ponte San Martino from 1929 . The renaming was reversed in 1946.

Today the place is a small industrial center in the lower Aosta Valley.

Web links

Commons : Pont-Saint-Martin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pont-Saint-Martin (Aosta Valley). In: Structurae
• Picture and description of the Pont-Saint-Martin bridge in Italian

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.

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