Via Cima
horizon there was a shadow of a tourist visiting the country of witches. We looked out of curiosity the windows of the specialty food store The Witch of Triora which was empty at that hour. Recognized the owner, Luana Bertol, behind the counter of meats and cheeses committed to putting in some blank pieces of Toma, a cheese produced in alpine pastures above Triora. Italy continued along the course regardless of the rain. We walked in silence, looking straight in front of us the old village that once stood with its cluster of old houses. On our left were opening the vaults of the porch of the old hospital recently renovated and adapted to psychiatric hospitalization.
addition to the primacy of the witches had Triora now is crazy. Under the arcades of the so-called Fountain Hospital gushed fresh water with which we turn to drink. I wondered what would be the next. We continued to reach the site of the former Museum Ethnographic and witchcraft which now lay empty and closed, with its underground once used as a prison for witches. The foundation of the museum dates back to 1960 through the work of Father Francis Ferraironi, which in addition to writing books, was a pioneer promoter tourist vocation in a country plagued by the problem of emigration country. We entered the narrow street leading to the center of Rome Triora. Once there stood one of the gates to the village, called or commonly called Peirana career for the simple fact that needed to go to the old church of San Pietro. Of all this nothing remained after the German reprisal based explosive. We passed the clearing of the market square which is overlooked the tall tower houses built on rock, with steep walls of stones piled on each other which opened arched windows and slits. We stop to admire the architecture simple, but bold at the same time. At one time this was where he turned the market Triora. We arrived at the portico of Masaghin, which covered a number of times they took us under the old Palace Amero Stella, one of the pearls of the village. Masaghin The name derived from that of the room where the original town, which collapsed during the earthquake of 1587. Stella Palace Amero, the fourteenth century and owned by one of the most powerful families of the village, Stella's just, I knew him well as a seat of research center on witchcraft.
Excerpt from "The nights Triora Gothic" by Edmondo Ippolito Ferrario, Frilli Publisher
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