While ago I had the opportunity to see the fifth edition of Napoleonica, a historical re-enactment of Napoleon and his troops passage during the second Italian Campaign during 1800s which was held at the Fort of Bard (Valle d'Aosta - Italy).

Cannon

An intriguing return to the past, between shots of guns and cannons, without bullets but roaring a lot, so much so that they echoed in the Valley's mountains managing to frighten the most sensitive children, who much cried.

Napoleon's troops

I arrived a little bit late at the event, I did not have the opportunity to see the passage of the troops in the front line but I had to follow them and not be able to immortalize them worthily, I tried to do my best about it by taking pictures and making some short videos.

Napoleon's troops

But let's go back to history when the French army was intent on descending from the Great St. Bernard invading the Aosta Valley and besieging the Fort of Bard, the place of commemoration, which after two weeks had to surrender. This event celebrated the Fort's resistance to invaders.

Fake dead

The village and the Fort of Bard hosted the representation of the French and Austro-Piedmont camps.

Lampugnani's Camp in the center - In the left an elevator

The Fort has long been a place of cultural interest, hosts and has hosted many art and photography exhibitions, it was also set scenes of Avengers: Age of Ultron movie of 2015.

The Fort conquest

Everything was accompanied by a speaker's voice who explained the various siege moments in detail, it could be heard easily thanks to the many speakers scattered throughout the route.

Below are some videos that I shot in some moments of the revisiting and uploaded to my personal YouTube channel:

I hope that with these photos and videos I managed to make you relive a part of the revisitation and felt the atmosphere that the Fort breathed during the event.

Bard Fort from a bridge over the Dora Baltea river