Vallo Torinese is a community where fraternity and reception may be perceived on people’s faces and in their gestures, these being the result of a precious and patient work done by shepherds on the local population during the past century.
They are simple people who have been able to realize great things through extraordinary twine of humanity and spirituality.
The thousand-year old past is the same as that of many Italian villages worthy of attention. Thanks to the recovery, in the Gaiera region, of some archeological evidence we believe that in the Gaelic-Roman age already existed in the Vallo area a Celtic settlement. In the first century AD, at the time of the Roman colonization, Vallo was a small “castrum”, a fortified village built to protect the roman road coming from the Susa Valley. This road, through Brione, La Cassa and Baratonia, was then crossing the Stura near Cafasse, on the way to climbing the mountain and then descending to the Viù Valley.
Vallo is buried in thick birch, oak and pine woods with a few majestic horse chestnuts trees that line the entrance to the Chapel, from where you may enjoy a beautiful panorama with Monte Turu on the right, Monte Druina on the left.
