Fenestrelle

Fenestrelle ( Piedmontese Fenestrele , Occitan Finistrelas ) is an Italian municipality with 506 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019) in the metropolitan city of Turin (TO), Piedmont region and is the holder of the Bandiera Arancione of the TCI .

geography

The place is at an altitude of 1215 m above sea level in the Val Chisone , about 40 km (as the crow flies) west of Turin . The municipality covers an area of 49 km². The town's patron saint is St. Louis of France .

Neighboring municipalities are Meana di Susa , Mattie , Usseaux , Pragelato , Roure and Massello .

The baroque parish church was built on the initiative of Louis XIV and consecrated on August 25, 1689. It is dedicated to Saint Louis of France.
The place is particularly known for the mountain fortress built here between 1728 and 1850 . The complex is the largest of its kind in Europe and consists of a series of individual fortifications connected by stairs and paths. The connecting stairs have a total of over 4000 steps. The facility was built by the fortress builder Ignazio Giuseppe Bertola Roveda to ward off a possible French invasion of Piedmont along the Val Chisone .

Commons : Fenestrelle - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Homepage of the municipality (Italian)
The mountain fortress of Fenestrelle (military fortress) . Reinhard Dietschi's website, January 2005
Daniele Tron: Comune: Fenestrelle , Schede storiche-territoriali dei comuni del Piemonte (PDF)

↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
↑ Bandiera Arancione. In: Bandierearancioni.it. Retrieved April 30, 2018 (Italian).