In a few minutes from Vallo we reach Varisella the history of which deeply intersects that of its Baratonia hamlet. This little hamlet was an independent municipality up to the last century and seat of a viscountcy. Nothing is left, except the outside walls, of its Castle.
During the partisan Resistance Varisella played a very important role being the seat of the Lower Lanzo Valley’s Command.
The castle existence is proved by a 1090 document. Likely, even before the year 1000, a small hamlet existed at the base of it, but only ruins are found nowadays. Some bricks and fragments induce to think they could have been settlements of the late Roman period.
