Hi all! Today I’ll take you in Val Germanasca in a hamlet of Bovile called Vrocchi. In this place I had the chance to visit a small but very interesting museum set into the town’s Beckwith school. This small school hosted the local students until 1932 and, for a short time, during the Second World […]

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 […]

Here I am with a new, very special legend! Today I’ll bring you into the high valley of Massello, in a place called Cournilhoun, a woody ridge near the Eidût hill country. It is said that once upon a time in this place lived some fairies (also called fantine) in a cot under a rock. […]

I’m here again to tell you a new legend, tragic and magic at the same time. Today I’ll show you the photos I took at Ribba, a small village above Prali, in Germanasca Valley. One time, this small group of houses wasn’t located here, protected by the steep mountains, but in another place, just near […]

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, […]