Fort exilles - a huge fortress in the valley of Val di Susa, producing a lasting impression, was opened to the public in 2000, thanks to the cooperation of the government of Piedmont and the National Museum "Montagna Cai Torino." A beautiful example of the Franco-Savoyard military architecture, the fortress itself now converted into a museum. Two tour routes allow visitors to discover the history of this building, one laid inside the fort, introduces different levels of the fortress and its function, and the second proposes to admire the scenery. Stone soldiers, sculptures, paintings and photographs accompany visitors during their journey into the past and tell the long history of the fort.

The first fortified structure on a rock on the right bank of the river Dora mentioned in documents in 1155, the year when the Counts Albon controlled the road leading to Mondzhinevro .  This place already had a strategic military importance, and exilles was the most eastern outskirts of princely estates .  In 1339, the year on the rock stood a real defense system - it was a rare example of a so-called 'roadside castle " .  In the second half of the 16th century, the castle became a bone of contention between Catholics and reformers who wanted to control the province of Dauphine, in those years raspolagvshuyusya on both sides of the Alps .  After signing in 1601, the year of the peace treaty of Fort Lyon exilles for a long time was out of sight of international politics .  Only in 1708, the year Savoyard army under Victor Amedeusa II was able to capture the entire Val di Bardonecchia and the old fortress .  But the conquest of Piedmont alpine valleys Kizone Dora and their subsequent transfer under the authority of the House of Savoy in 1713, the year identified a new strategic position of the entire state of Savoy .  Fort exilles was significantly upgraded and rebuilt, and its defenses were turned towards France .  In the second half of the 18th century there was held a number of reconstructions .  Despite this, in 1796, the year the French troops razed the fortress to the ground, and only in the 1818-1829 th years fort was rebuilt in the form in which we see it today - in accordance with the rules of military architecture of the time . 

After World War II Fort exilles was abandoned. All that could carry or take away, was looted, ranging from wooden window frames and ending with electrical cables. Only in 1978 the government of Piedmont acquired the castle, which immediately drew up a plan for its restoration, and in 2000 at Fort exilles museum was opened.