Pont-Saint-Martin (Aosta Valley)
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Country | Italy | |
region | Aosta Valley | |
Coordinates | 45 ° 36 ' N , 7 ° 48' 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 (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.
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
- Pont-Saint-Martin (Aosta Valley). In: Structurae
- Picture and description of the Pont-Saint-Martin bridge in Italian
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
← Previous location: Donnas 5.4 km | Pont-Saint-Martin (Aosta Valley) | Next town: Settimo Vittone 11.7 km →
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