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エドモンド・デ・アミチスがトッレ・ペッリチェについての（美しい）章を書いたとき、彼はそれを「イタリアのジュネーブ」と題しました。そして、おそらくこれ以上のタイトルは見つけられなかったでしょう。秩序、清潔さ、そして何よりも静けさにおいて、本当にスイスにいるように感じます。空気中に何があるのか分かりませんが、カフェにいる人々でさえ、ささやくように話しています。それは独自の次元で生きている町です。おそらくワルドー派の宗教によるものでしょうか、それともワルドー派の宗教がその首都の特徴に合わせて形成されたのでしょうか、誰にもわかりません。いずれにせよ、絶対に訪れる価値があります。

現存するワルド派の寺院の中で最も古いものかもしれません。Ciabàs地区にある小さな建物で、道のすぐ上にあり、その歴史を要約した説明板があります。内部（通常は閉鎖）には、18世紀のクーネオ包囲戦の英雄である有名なフォン・ロイトルム男爵を含む、いくつかの著名な歴史上の人物が埋葬されています。彼は歴史的な歌「Baron Litron」で歌われました（これは、現代のワインの「リットル」や同様の快適さとは何の関係もないことを思い出してください）。少しわざわざ行く必要があり、Angrognaに向かって上り坂を登ると、最初の急な坂道がありますが、間違いなく訪れる価値があります。

passage during tour in val pellice

The history of the municipality is characterised by the presence of the Waldensians who, as in the rest of the Valley, began to settle there starting from the 13th century.

The Ciabàs (or Chabàs) is a small Waldensian temple located between the municipalities of Angrogna, Luserna San Giovanni and Torre Pellice, and is the oldest Waldensian temple in Italy.

The name "Waldensians" comes from the Middle Ages. The Catholic Church used this term to describe the followers of Valdes from Lyon, who founded a movement of itinerant preachers around 1173. Valdes, known as "Petrus Waldus" since 1350, was a wealthy citizen of Lyon. Since he could not read the Latin Bible himself, he had it translated into the vernacular in 1173. He then gave his property to the poor and began to preach publicly. He soon gathered a circle of men and women around him. In 1532, the last itinerant preachers and their followers joined the Reformation and founded a Reformed Church in the Cottian Alps. Its members now called themselves "Waldensians". They were convinced that their ancestors had been Protestant Christians long before the Reformation. Today the Reformed Waldensian Church exists in Italy and South America. (Text source: https://www.waldenser.de/ueber-uns/wappen/geschichte )

This uniquely shaped Waldensian Temple is a building from 1806, with an interesting history of earthquakes and persecutions. From the square you can enjoy a beautiful view of the valley.

Torre Pellice is an enchanting Piedmontese village, a few kilometers south of Pinerolo. Its history and its territory are closely linked to Luserna San Giovanni. This place is of central importance for the Waldensian Church in Italy and is also the seat of the mountain community "Val Pellice". The monuments that underline its identity as a historical center of the Waldensian tradition are: the Waldensian Cultural Center – a place dedicated to the promotion and conservation of the documentary heritage and local minority languages, the Guesthouse, the Museum – with its vast historical and ethnographic, the Waldensian House - which houses over 50,000 books, including some of great rarity, such as the valuable Olivetano Bible from 1535, and finally the neo-Romanesque style temple from 1852. The civic gallery of contemporary art dedicated to Filippo Scroppo is certainly worth a visit, where works of painting, sculpture and some drawings by post-war Italian artists are exhibited.