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Pèllice Valley

Pèllice Valley

Impervious mountains, wilderness, difficulty of access. These are some of the reasons why the Pèllice valley became in the past the utmost shelter of the last medieval heresy. The Waldensian Church went through a long spiritual course and suffered indescribable persecutions, starting from the...
Occitans in Calabria: Guardia Piemontese

Occitans in Calabria: Guardia Piemontese

Guardia Piemontese (La Gàrdia) is a small town in Province of Cosenza, in the Calabria region in Southern Italy. It is located on a spur of the Catena Costiera Mountain, it counts 1863 inhabitants and it has been speaking Occitan for four centuries. The occurrence that brought in the deep Sou...
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