Usseaux

In the upper Val Chisone, where Occitan is still spoken, Usseaux and its four hamlets are a lesson in mountain farming architecture: stone and timber houses pressed together around shared fountains, washhouses, bread ovens and a water mill. About forty murals of rural life, animals and fairy tales cover the walls of the main village, while Balboutet, higher up, has some twenty painted sundials.

Highlights

• Some twenty painted sundials around the hamlet of Balboutet
• The murals of Usseaux, one of Piedmont's painted villages
• The 18th-century communal oven, washhouse and mill
• The Strada dell'Assietta, a high military road to the Val di Susa
• The Orsiera-Rocciavrè natural park

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Usseaux (IT), Usseaux (EN)), Wikivoyage (Usseaux). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.