SAVOIE: La Maurienne

La Chambre
From Chambéry through Bessans to the Averole valley, the routes go over two passes on the territory of the Duchy of Savoy, the Arnès pass (3,010 m), and its descent into the Ala valley, and the Autaret pass (3,072 m), which descends towards the Viù valley. Turin is reached through ‘Marguerite’s Lands’. This territory, the Lanzo valleys (Alà and Viù), ruled by the Laws of Marguerite written in the mid fourteenth century, remained
faithful to the House of Savoy in the sixteenth century.
La Maurienne – Site 11

La Chambre

The commune of La Chambre was meant to be a crossroads. Four cattle markets were organised there every year.
The church dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin belonged to the Benedictines as early as the eleventh century and it was transformed into a collegiate church in 1514 under the patronage of Saint Marcel. When the church was restored in 1688, it kept its magnificent Romanesque doorway by an Italian artist considered to be a unique treasure of twelfth‐century sculpture in Savoy, already viewed at the time as Gothic in spirit.
In the town centre, the house of the Tower consists of a tower dating from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and of a corps de logis from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which used to be a tax office in the thirteenth‐century.
The former convent of the Cordeliers (a Franciscan order named after the rope used as a cincture), founded in 1345, is a large half‐ruined edifice which still displays beautiful ogival doors and windows. With that of Chambéry, it is one of the only two Cordeliers convents preserved in Savoy. The Cordeliers built the old dyke which prevented the commune of La Chambre from being swept away by the flooding of the Arc river in 1859.

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