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martedì 29 aprile 2014

Happy New Year from Our Lady of Ronvello

And here we are in 2013, I greet him with this panorama, taken from Madonna di Ronvello, a small church onDemonte Stura Valley.

It is said that even to give his name to this jug was an exclamation of the Emperor Constantine in 1305, climbing up to date to be able to see all his army encamped in the plain below exclaimed "Se Roman Velle" which Ronvello.Shortly after the sun went down and the trophy would look prescient of the Cross, formed by light rays and the words "By this sign you win." For this reason, the inhabitants built the chapel.
I have not had any appearance, but the sun setting behind the mountains in front of it is still a good show.
Interesting is the vision of two small hills in the middle of the plain in front of Demonte, just above the site of theold fort of the Consolata.
It was built in 1590 by Charles Emmanuel to defend the valley against attacks Huguenots arrived by 1744 virtuallyuntouched, in that year the Franco-Spanish besieged him during their advance towards the plain, and there was a large exchange of artillery.
Although the walls were bombproof the Piedmontese left him panic due to the fire developed and retreated toCuneo. Was restored in the following years and finally destroyed by order of Napoleon, after the armistice of Cherasco, in 1796. Was not rebuilt because in the meantime Carlo Alberto of Savoy had built this majestic fort ofVinadio.
In the 30s it was added in the Vallo Alpino, on the podium were placed some artillery guns and long range to defendthe valley from a possible French invasion.
The photo is a union of six shots taken with my trusty samsung galaxy wonder. None of that compared to a DSLR,but want to put the convenience of having always behind.




Panorama Stura Valley

With this shot achieved by combining 5 photos captured with my samsung wonder I leave the 2012. Hoping that 2013 is better. The photo is nothing special but I liked the view from that point on, I will a little 'better equipped ...
We are in Val Stura di Demonte, just above the Madonna del Pino, everything to the left is the hill of Festiona, on the right the valley very slowly climbs towards the hill of La Maddalena.



Turning their backs on this sunset the sun shines for a moment a tongue of snow.