Valdesina

Hi all, my friends! Today we’ll travel through the history: in 1686 the Duke of Savoy Vittorio Amedeo II started a campaign to exterminate the Waldensians in their valleys. A small group of fearless men started an armed resistance to defend their right to exist. Do you want to follow me and discover the beautiful […]

Hi all! Today I’m going to tell you an interesting story: we’ll talk about the temple of Villasecca in Perrero, in Val San Martino. At the beginning of their history, the Waldensians of this valley had to face many difficulties. In the middle of the 16th century the local feudal lords, the brothers Carlo and […]

Hi! Today I’m telling you a legend which gives me the creeps. We’re in Prarostino, a village between Val Pellice and Val Germanasca that maybe you already know because of other legends I recounted you. The story is about two peasants which a night, illuminated by the moonshine, were coming back home talking and chatting […]

Good morning to everybody! Today we’re going to talk a little bit about history! I’d like to recount you the story of the temples in the Perrero’s hamlet called Maniglia. The most ancient temple was located in the small village of Serre and it had been built in the first half of 16th Century. Despite […]

Above Prali, in Val Germanasca, you can see a nice hamlet: Indiritti. The story tells us that here, once, an old lady and her two daughters–in–law lived together. Because the husbands of the young women were often abroad for work reasons, the three women were obliged to stay home together. The problem is that these […]

Hi! Do you remember my journey outside from the Valleys some weeks ago? In that post I recounted you about my visit to the Temple of Piazza Cavour in Rome. Today, on the contrary, I won’t go too far, in fact I’m going to tell you something about the Temple of Via dei Mille in […]

Ciao a tutti! Oggi parliamo un po’ di storia e in particolare di San Germano e del suo Tempio. A partire dal Quattrocento in questo paesino si era molto diffuso il culto valdese ma, come accadde anche in Val Pellice, anche qui i valdesi subirono molte persecuzioni. Dopo la Pace di Cavour nel 1561, però, […]

If you haven’t read the post published last week, well, you’re still on time! In that article I’ll show you the birth of a post.

Hi all! Today I won’t bring you around for discover a place and its history, but I’m going to tell you the way a Valdesina‘s blog post is crafted. Are you ready to follow me step by step? So, the first thing I do is to gather data about an interesting story, which can be […]

Hello! I really hope you liked the previous story about the Waldensian costume, ’cause today I want to tell you something about another important element of Waldensian tradition and clothes; you may have noticed that many people wear a characteristic pendant, called “Huguenot cross”. What is it? It takes its name from the French Protestants, […]