SAVOIE: La Maurienne

La Chapelle
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 12

La Chapelle

The church dedicated to Saint Philibert was built around 1700. It cannot be visited, but its high façade and the square tower of its steeple make a striking impression. It houses a remarkable Baroque reredos. Between the centre of La Chapelle and the hamlet of Gondran, the oratory of Saint Anthony of Padua, rebuilt in 1863 on the site of an older building, gave rise to a variety of legends, as skeletons were discovered under the ruins!
In the hamlet of Les Moulins, the current chapel of Saint‐Bernard replaced, in the nineteenth century, a monument erected by some pious inhabitants who had survived a rockfall in the fifteenth century, known as ‘The Deluge of Saint Laurent’. It still houses a painting from the old chapel representing Saint Bernard of Menthon.

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