{"id":2675,"date":"2025-07-21T10:49:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hotelmontagnards.com\/NEW\/a-spasso-tra-vigneti-e-castelli\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:49:29","slug":"a-walk-among-vineyards-and-castles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hotelmontagnards.com\/en\/a-walk-among-vineyards-and-castles.html","title":{"rendered":"A walk among vineyards and castles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"228\" data-end=\"706\">The walk starts just a few steps from our hotel, in the historic centre of Morgex, where you can admire the ancient Church of Santa Maria Assunta, dating back to the 5th\u20136th century \u2014 likely one of the oldest in the Aosta Valley.<br data-start=\"457\" data-end=\"460\" \/>Continuing along Via Valdigne, you soon reach the <em data-start=\"510\" data-end=\"528\">Tour de l\u2019Archet<\/em>, an ancient castle built in 998 AD as a strategic outpost towards France. Today, it houses the Natalino Sapegno Foundation, as well as the Pro Loco and the local tourist office.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"708\" data-end=\"1238\">At the end of the street, you can cross the main road via the pedestrian underpass, walk up Via Echely and reach Vi Plana: from here, you\u2019ll stroll through vineyards in full view of the majestic Mont Blanc. The Pri\u00e9 Blanc vines surrounding you are native plants that grow only between 900 and 1,200 metres in the upper Valdigne: this is where Europe\u2019s highest vineyards give life to <em data-start=\"1091\" data-end=\"1123\">Blanc de Morgex et de La Salle<\/em>. Don\u2019t miss the ancient vineyard \u201cLa Piagne\u201d and, of course, a tasting in one of the most renowned local wineries.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1240\" data-end=\"1445\">To complete the sunny-side loop (the <em data-start=\"1277\" data-end=\"1284\">adret<\/em>) of Morgex, follow Vi Plana to the end and descend to La Ruine, where you can admire the 15th-century <em data-start=\"1387\" data-end=\"1414\">Pascal de La Ruine Castle<\/em> before returning to the hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An itinerary through history and tradition, discovering the origins of the Aosta Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelmontagnards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelmontagnards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelmontagnards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelmontagnards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelmontagnards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelmontagnards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2696,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelmontagnards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelmontagnards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelmontagnards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelmontagnards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hotelmontagnards.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}