The River Dora flows around the outside of the comune

of Villeneuve in the Aosta Valley before flowing past the Church of Saint Roch situated above it on the hillside. Higher up the hill stands the Château de Chatel Argent with its tower and remains of the Romanesque style church dedicated to Saint Colombe.
In 1802 Joseph Mallord William Turner the famous English Romantic landscape painter visited Villeneuve. Turner's piece The Bridge at Villeneuve from his Grenoble Sketchbook is currently displayed at the Tate Britain.
The peaks you see in the background running right to left are Bouque de Croux (1712 meters), Cou Plan (2200 m), Mont de Ane (2367 m) and Becca de Chamen (2961 m). File 2836.