Aiton (Savoie)

Aiton is a municipality with 1759 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2011) within the arrondissement of Saint -Jean -de- Maurienne in the French Savoie département in the Rhône - Alpes is about 20 kilometers from Albertville, with whom she A430 by the Autoroute is connected.

Aiton is located at the mouth of the valley of the River Arc, one of the major valleys in the Western Alps, which was created after the last ice age. The valley region in which open several major Alpine passes under the name of Maurienne formed a historical province of Savoy.

Due to the convenient traffic location at the motorway intersection between Grenoble, Geneva and Turin, the municipality has experienced significant population growth in recent years.