Walking around the cities of Valle d'Aosta. Trip in Italy

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A long weekend in Val d'Aosta. We arrive in advance, leaving the highway and going by bus up to 1700 meters to enjoy a splendid view. Visit to St. Vincent, with its churches and the famous casino. Stop at Chatillon, where we visit the church and walk in the park.
Just before we discover Courmayeur La Salle, a small town city hall seems to be just a monument, built in the typical gray stone, with roofs covered by "lose" the diamond-shaped stone slabs compulsory in Val d'Aosta over 600m above sea level . Curiosity: we see a log SRAM larch, with the flag Aosta, red and black on top, which we find in almost all countries and that hangs in front of the house of the Mayor, who seems to recall the Jacobean tree of liberty.
Courmayeur, at the foot of Mont Blanc, although the center of town is impossible to see the summit, is the latest Italian city that meets before arriving in France via the Mont Blanc (Chamonix out); important tourist and winter sports, is crossed by the Dora Baltea these days swollen with water.
We find that in the Val d'Aosta is spoken "patois" (patu) an indigneous french-like language.