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Valle di Susa project aims at presenting his heritage: Tesori di Arte e Cultura alpina. Standing as a natural linking bridge towards Europe, Valle di Susa has always witnessed crucial historical moments throughout centuries, being the shelter of a huge heritage of arts and alpine culture, able to create a unique territory. The above mentioned resources can be now transformed into a widespread museum; creating a series of walks through our area’s varied and peculiar cultural symbols: involving archaeology, sacred art, material culture as well as forts. One of Valle di Susa’s major attractions is its ability of recording marks of meaningful periods of history in its archaeology. Starting from prehistory until modern times Valle di Susa has always collected and preserved traces and objects belonging to different cultures and civilizations. The sacred art patrimony is inserted into a domain where huge mountains are along side with deep wood covered canyons. And it is these very features that have always influenced man in his relationship with supernatural elements. Thanks to a wide valley floor, groups of mountaineers settled and inhabited areas which later developed also thanks to the numerous passes used as a fast connection with Europe. The continuous journeys through the Valley greatly stimulated the production of objects of sacred art and the creation of architectural remarkable signs. Abbeys, frescos and Romanic dauphine parishes stand as examples of such cultural interpretations. Valle di Susa, moreover, due to the presence of numerous alpine passes, has been strategically effective and this explains the widespread and evident presence of military structures in the area. In a substantially homogeneous environment a clear historical stratification of military architecture pops out standing as a fil rouge from the middle ages to the second world war. ‘Material culture’ tells the story of men and women living in the valley, their jobs, their interactions with the mountains and the creation of living centres in both valley floors and on hard and steep mountain slopes. Witness of the rich presence of population in the area is the multiple language variety which is articulated in different directions: Italian oriented in some areas and sometimes influenced by transalpine dialects.
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