The Fort of Exilles is a huge fortress in the valley of Val di Susa, producing a lasting impression, was opened to the public in 2000-m to year thanks to the cooperation of the government of the Piedmont region and National Museum Montagna Cai-Torino. A beautiful example of the Franco-Savoyard military architecture, the fortress today she turned into a Museum. Two tour route allows visitors to discover the history of the building: single, padded inside of the Fort, introduces different levels of the fortress and its functions, and the second proposes to admire the scenery. Stone soldiers, sculptures, paintings and photographs accompany the visitors during their travel to the past and tell the long history of the Fort.

The first fortified structure on the right Bank of the river Dora referred to in 1155, the year when the counts of Albon controlled the road leading to Monginevro. This place already had strategic military importance, and Exilles was the easternmost edge of the Ducal possessions. In 1339, the year on the rock stood a real defensive complex – 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 dauphiné, in those years raspolagavsheesya on both sides of the Alps. After signing in 1601, the year peace Treaty of Lyons Fort Exilles for a long time were out of sight of international policy. Only in 1708, the year of the Savoyard army under the leadership of Victor Amadeus II was able to capture all the Val di Bardonecchia and the old fortress. But the Piedmontese conquest of the Alpine valleys of the Dora and Valle with their subsequent transfer under the authority of the house of Savoy in 1713, the year identified new strategic positions of all the Savoyard state. The Fort of Exilles was substantially redesigned and rebuilt, and its fortifications were turned towards France. In the second half of the 18th century, there was an even number of renovations. Despite this, in 1796, the year the French troops razed the fortress to the ground, and only in 1818-1829-m years the Fort was rebuilt in the form in which we see it today, is in accordance with the rules of military architecture of the time.

After the Second World war the Fort of Exilles was abandoned. Everything that could be stolen or taken away, stolen, ranging from wooden window frames and ending with electrical cables. Only in 1978, the year the castle was acquired by the government of Piedmont, which immediately developed a plan for its recovery, and in 2000-m to year in the Fort of Exilles, a Museum was opened.