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Extract from the Nus Travel Guides:
NUS
, further up the main valley from Chatillon, is a small, pretty village, overlooked by a ruined castle, that makes a good base for the
Castello di Fnis
2km away (daily: March-Sept 9am-7pm; Oct-Feb 10am-5pm; L6000/3.10). Backed by wooded hills and encircled by two rows of turreted walls, the castle is a fairy-tale cluster of towers decorated with scalloped arcades. These defences were primarily aesthetic, with the real job of protecting the valley being left to the less prettified fortresses of nearby Nus and Quart, while the Fnis branch of the Challant counts concentrated on refining their living quarters with fine Goth...
read the whole Nus Travel Guides...
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