SEARCH HISTORIAN - URBAN PLANNING ON THE TOWN OF SALASSA

of BRUNO VINCENZO

2 - HISTORICAL NEWS 2.1) the situation of the Canavese in XII the century After the vicissitudes dell ' XI century tied to the fight between the king Arduino and the monarch sassone Enrico II, the Canavese or, in order more better to say, the narrow territory that such name designated, was, since the beginning of XII the century, under the sure control of conte Guido, name in the 1111 from the Emperor Enrico V, and of i its descendants. The accounts of the Canavese were divided, perhaps around the 1163, in two coppers: the Saint Martino and the Valperga. From these last ones he separated himself then, in the 1193, the family of the Masino. From this moment the situation of autonomy and eudemico subordinated conflict between the feudi canavesani to the imperial authority characterized this zone of the Piemonte with permanere of a carolingio-feudale organizational structure, elsewhere while the lack of a efficient central power favored rising of common and the republics the duffles-coat. This did not prevent however the development of local communities that remained but always subject to the power of the getlteman. the 2.2) first news on Salassa the Bertolotti asserts that around to the 1100 it is begun to having a distinguished mention of Salassa but it does not cite some documentation with regard to. (To BERTOLOTTI, " Walks... " cit., p. 121). We think that to continuation of the partition of the canavesani territories happened in the 1193, Salassa has been incorporated, with to other surrounding villages, to the possedimenti of the getlteman of Valperga. (From a document of the 1317, conserved near the sez. of the Arch. of State of Turin (prot.7, f. 52) turn out that Salassa was to that age entire subject to the accounts of Valperga to the par of Cuorgnč, Pertusio, Levone, Jump, Rivara, Rivarossa, Barbania, Orio, Silvescum, Saint Benigno and Volpiano). The total document absence does not concur to establish which was the relationships that elapsed between the Valperga and the community of Salassa in that period, but believes however that Salassa has not never been able to enjoy a wide autonomy also because of its vicinanza with the residence place of Conti. Just this state of subordination of the village in all probability explains this amazing deficiency of news respect to other canavesane localities. One of the rarest ones given in our possession, is the news, brought back from the Bertolotti, but then resumption also from other authors, of an action with which, in the 1251, conte the Guidetto di Valperga acquired from Enrietto di San Martino, the flour mills of Salassa and the tens of this place. (To BERTOLOTTI, " Walks... ", cit., p. 10 and p. 121, Vds. also P. RAMELLA, " Civilization of the Canavese ", Chieri, 1977, p. 264 and F. PANERO in op. cit., p. 169). Such purchase, second some students, would be from putting in relation with a first widening, towards the west, of the original village, already composed in all probability from the " old villa " (to east) and from " recetto " (to north) like will look at themselves later on.

2.3) the situation of the Canavese in XIII the century: the alloys and brigandage the endemic state of guerrilla between the local getlteman let alone the frequent frictions between the greater cities of nordoccidentale Italy (between Ivrea and Vercelli, Pavia and Milan, Vercelli and Novara, etc.) they determined one be of serious tension, in which the alliances between such small and averages powers an crescent and dangerous game of interests and rivalry were alternated in. In this situation the constitution of the " great alloy of the Canavese " is framed, of which they made part not only the accounts of the several lineages but also the common fort of Ivrea, suggellata from the " Concordiae Paper " of the 1213. The alliance between canavesani and eporediesi had to dissuadere undertaken expansionistic politics from the Marquis of the Monferrato and supported from Vercelli, but, already in the 1231, the rinate rivalries between the accounts and the common one of Ivrea, at first neutralized with a new agreement of the 1229, irrimediabilmente compromised the future of the alloy. The community of Salassa, mails under the control of the Valperga, was not sure in a position to living in first person these controversies. However at least an action of the consortile must have interested also the village salassese. Draft of the convention of 11 March 1263, stipulated from Vercelli and the Marquis of the Monferrato with the accounts of the Canavese, for the " grubbing of the berrovieri and ladri ". (the Vds. To BERTOLOTTI, " Conventions and statutos nell ' grubbing of the berrovieri and the ladri from the Monferrato, Canavese, vercellese and Pavian in i centuries XIII and XIV ", in " Miscellanea of Italian history ", volume XII, Turin, 1871, pp. 735.-761 and G. FROLA, " Classification of the statutos ", B.S.B.S., Turin, 1905, p. 144). In fact the phenomenon of brigandage, caused imperversare of the wars and from the sopraffazioni of the getlteman, had assumed such proportions to demand extraordinary participations for the emergency of the roads and the fortified defense of the small rural villages like the construction of fencings and places (recetti) in order to enclose the harvests. 2.4) the " War of the Canavese " to increase the perennial confrontation between the accounts joined to their division in Guelfi and Ghibellines. This partitica contrast did not have, in Canavese, the same one meant that it assumed in other zones of Italy, that is of fight between the supporters of the papacy and that one of the Germanic emperors, but rispecchiava only the various alliances of the Valperga, than they leaned the Ghibelline marquis of the Monferrato, and the Saint Martino that were legacies to Guelf prince of Acaia. More was not dealt therefore than simple inner discords between the accounts, but of a conflict of capacity very more width in which scontrarono high power guelfe and Ghibellines of the Piemonte and the Lombardy, while the weight of the war came sopportato from the canavesani countries that came in part destroyed and plundered. Already in the 1307 prince Filippo d' Acaia, being useful for the lay person inimicizia between the two greater canavesane families and on the pretext of helping the Saint Martino had entered in Canavese occupying immense territories until Rivarolo, to the doors of our village.

The 1339 were the year that marked the beginning of that subsequently the " War of the Canavese " was called and that it would be duration for beyond vent' years. After that the 300 " helmets without crest " (soldiers protect from a elmo fortified of metallic mesh) German hired from the Valperga had assaulted and having various villages of part guelfa (Vische, Rivarolo, Montalenghe, Orio, Saint Benigno, Favria, Front, Barbania, Pont and on i castles, etc), i Saint Martino passed to the counterattack and, engaged to they time of the mercenarie troops in the 1339 - 40 invaded the Canavese. The villages of Salassa and Valperga, easy were conquered and set afire (".... Villam Salaziae combusserunt, Villam quoque Castri Valpergae robarerunt, ET vastaverunt... ") (P AZARIO, " Beautiful De Canapiciano ", traduz. of the VIGNONO and P. MOUNTS, Ivrea, 1970) and only the participation of the men of Cuorgnč prevented the occupation of the Castle of Valperga. Dynamics of this military action strengthens the hypothesis that the country of Salassa carried out the role of fortified defensive advance. The provocativi breakdowns in the 1360 from one new invasion of capeggiate English mercenarie military services from the marquis of the Monferrato, united to the plague that, just in those years, hit with particular violence the Canavese, determined the demand for protection from part of the local getlteman to Amedeo YOU of Savoia and the successive submission of the 1365. However the loss of independence did not mean the immediate end of the hostilities between the canavesane families avails again, tant' is true that, perhaps in the 1378, Salassa it came once again occupied, with to Rivarossa, from the troops of Saint Martino which, as it was estimated in the 1379, caused to the two villages a damage piling to approximately 1,000 Liras (Bertolotti). (To BERTOLOTTI, " Walks..... ", cit., vol. WAYS, p. 122). The Savoia tried more resumptions than to resolve the annosa " canavesana issue by now ", at first with conte Green and then with the Amedeo son the WAYS that re-united to Turin, in December 1385, the accounts and the representatives of the greater communities of the Canavese. the 2.5) statutos of the Valpergato of the 1350 draft of signorili statutos, that is of one consolidation of preexisting norms, for more than penal character, realized not already from the Community, previa the authorization of its getlteman, but from the same feudatario, in base to its right to exercise powers publics on its territory. These statutos not only had vigor in the village of Valperga, but in all the immense one feudo of such accounts, comprised Salassa. In the last chapter, where they come established fires of the villas of the castellata one in order to determine in proportional way the quotas due for the payment of the wage of the podestą if ne they assigned five to Salassa with Saint Ponso. (Cfr. G. FROLA, " Corpus ", cit., Vol. III, p. 491).

For the Salassa truth it probably comes indicated like " Cengia " a lot for an error of transcription of the same Frola. (Vds. G. CHIAPETTO, " historical-legal Searches on the community of Salassa ", thesis of bachelor, Fac. di Giurisprudenza of the University of Turin, a.a. 1981 - 82, pp. 89 - 92). From this consideration one could be gained appraisal of the importance of Salassa regarding the other centers near (to es. Valperga 8 fires, Rivarossa 4, Pertusio 1.5) sennonché the opinion disseminated between the historians is that these fires were groupings made from the feudatari in order to render the collection of the taxes easyr and therefore not necessarily corresponded to the borgate ones inhabited of a country. 2.6) the roggia of Favria In the second half of the 1300 come constructed one bealera, derived from the Orco for the irrigation of agricultural lands of Salassa, Saint Ponso, Oglianico and Favria, that it will constitute, until 1700, reason of contrasts and legal controversies between the communities interested. The more important action of the history of the roggia is the convention that, according to the Bertotti, comes signed to Salassa 21 March 1376, in the courtyard of Giovanni Bubble, neighbor to the church. (M BERTOTTI, " Favria and its " roggia " in the feudali fights of the Middle Ages " in " Risv. pop. " n. 46 of 9 December 1971, hour riedito in " canavesana History Documents ", Ivrea, 1978, pp. 376-377). 2.7) the Tuchinaggio the tuchinaggio, phenomenon that interested the Canavese in the second half of XIV century (1386-1391) even if ulterior strascichi still had in i centuries XV and XVI, it was one movement in which found place the popular rivendicazioni, desire of independence of some common one, the secular rivalry between the canavesani accounts and the expansionistic sights of Teodoro II of the Monferrato, Gian Galeazzo Visconti and Amedeo WAYS of Savoia. The term probably came used from the noble ones in order to indicate one turned popular generically they hostile even if the etimologia of the name is somewhat controversial. According to the popular tradition the revolt of the tuchini burst, in the 1386, to Brosso and of extended them to other localities of the Valchiusella and the near plain. However the new conflict, next to the initial connotation that ne had contraddistinto the initial moment, gradually assumed the appearance of a crash directed between conte Rosso and Teodoro II of Monferrato for the control of the canavesano territory, control that for a short period (1389) was also in the hands of Gian Galeazzo Visconti. Some news demonstrates that also the inhabitants of Salassa had an active role in the vicissitude. In fact, in the 1390, during I besiege of the village of Cuorgnč, in which the rioters of the zone had found shelter, we find to defense of walls also two tuchini salassesi. Moreover we know that the community, like other countries of the Canavese, came condemned from the Savoia to the pecuniaria pain of 200 fiorini ducali of gold for the crime of lesa maestą. Finally to the convention of Ivrea of May 1391, that he decrees to the effective submission of the canavesani getlteman to the authority of Amedeo WAYS, the proxies of Salassa participate together to the representatives of the several communities also. (Vds. S. CORDERO OF PAMPARATO, " Tuchinaggio (1386-1387) and the enterprises of Facino Dog in Canavese (1386-1400) ", in " Eporediensia ", Pinerolo, 1900, p. 448 and p. 450 P. VENESIA, " the tuchinaggio in Canavese (1386-1391) ", Ivrea, 1979, p. 113, pp. 118-119 and pp. 121-122, To BERTOLOTTI, " Walks... " cit., vol. WAYS, p. 122).

After the tuchinaggio therefore the communities they acquire greater political rights to the damages of the feudale class that hour is subordinated to the interests of the central authority savoiarda. " the history - the Venesia says - exited from the castles, the vescovadi, the halls in which togati giurisperiti disquisivano and cavillavano in Latin more or little forbito, in order to approve of to plateam, apud torculum, infra lobiam, to fraxinum, apud pontem recetti, where the head-fire were assembled in order to discuss in rozzo vernacolo canavesano the communitarian interests... ". (P. VENESIA, " the tuchinaggio... ", cit., vol. WAYS, p. 122). 2.8) XV the century XV the century was, for all the Canavese, a period of relative tranquillity because they were by now stopped is the wars intestine between the local accounts, weakened from their dissennate fights and the authority savoiarda, than the Savoia-Monferrato conflict with the suggellato agreement of the 1403 from the wedding between Teodoro and Margherita d' Acaia. In this historical context, the budget of the long years of war and disorders, was for Salassa, particularly negative because, to forehead of the huge endured damages, it did not obtain from the accounts of Valperga some concession of exemptions or freedom, as instead it happened for other communities near (in the 1387 the village of Valperga and in the 1419 rich and the powerful Cuorgnč). The almost absolute supremacy of the Valperga of evince also from the " investiture " of which ago mention the " Index of the conserved Feudi " near the Joint Sections of the archives of State of Turin. (G. CHIAPETTO, " Searches... " cit., vol. WAYS, pp. 112-115). 2.9) XVI the century XVI the century was opened with the concession, to work of the accounts of Valperga, new statutos (in the 1502 and the 1510), faces to integrate those emanated in the 1350 and successive ones, of which it seems is not more remained trace, of the 1414 and the 1426. While the statutos of the 1350 contained norms of nearly exclusively penal character, these last ones instead were mostly constituted from dispositions of private and processale right, because logically they were addressed to a slow society in resumption economic that the requirement of new norms apt felt to regulate in sure way the interpersonal traffics and relationships. (the text of these statutos is brought back from F. FROLA, " Corpus... ", cit., vol. III. pp. 495-512 and, in riassuntivo way, from M. BERTOTTI, " Notes... " cit., pp. 254-259). Around the 1522 a violent epidemic burst of plague that hit also the village of Salassa. (Cfr. M. BERTOTTI, " Notes... ", cit., p. 271). From the 1536 to the 1559 the Canavese, been involved in the war franc-Spanish, endured the domination of the French. The Bertolotti remembers that it walls them of Salassa from which all the country was by now fencing seriously was damaged. (To BERTOLOTTI, " Walks... " cit., vol. WAYS, p. 124).

Moreover, from some documents, relative to the community of Cuorgnč, it seems that Salassa has been rising of " live-base " of the French soldiers who came " lodged " in the private houses and the common one was held to supply to their maintenance. (In an action of the 14 june 1544 law in fact: "... galici soldiers here sunt Logiati Salacia... " (M. BERTOTTI, " Notes... " cit., p. 319 and p. 332). After the French occupation the only sure news on Salassa regards the investitura of numerous local accounts (not only Valperghesi) of some property of the place like the flour mills, and the arguments for the payment of the tenth ecclesiastics, than they do not supply but new elements for the physical definition of the village. To the 1548 it then goes back the first " Book of the Ordered ones " conserved near the communal Archives, whose reading but turns out practically impossible for the elevated degradation of entire parts of writing. 2.10) XVII the century the 2.10.1) first halves of the century the two wars of succession of the Monferrato (from the 1612 to the peace of Madrid of the 1617 and from the 1627 to the treaty of Cherasco of the 1631), fought from France, Spain, Gonzaga and Savoia, were involved also the Canavese that, like great part of the Piemonte, came occupied from the French troops. Salassa, to the par of other communities, had newly to support the onerous burden of " logiate " and the military contribuzioni. The situation got worse with diffondersi in the zone of one new epidemic, as it turns out from sure communal book keeping books on which they came annotated expenses in order to pay the " cerusici ", " monatti " and the interments. Salassa was in fact obliged to accommodate the ill soldiers and to trasportarli subsequently to Ivrea. (Vds. G. C. POLA FALLETTI - VILLAFALLETTO, " the Castellata... " cit., Vol. III, pp. 127 - 129, 131, 133, 136 and 179; M. BERTOTTI, " Notes... " cit., pp. 378-379, 383, 401). To memory of how much it happened remains the votiva nail head of Saint Rocco, situated close to the cemetary, made to build up from the Common one in the 1630 (To BERTOLOTTI, " Walks... " cit., vol. WAYS, p. 130; G. PANERO in op. cit., p. 171), like testified from the lapide of the 1859 visible one still today on the facade of the church. From the 1635, with the dead women of Vittorio Amedeo I, a fight was get loosed in Piemonte intestina between the Savoia for the possession of the wandering throne, in which, naturally, it is the France that Spain did not lose the occasion of inserirsi in the contesa that it definitively only finished with the hunting of the Spanish in the 1659. The Pola reports that during civil war (1640-41), second some esteem, the French soldiers presents to Salassa were very 1500: " the houses, the rigurgitavano aie of soldiers, servants, horses, women a lot who were themselves due to construct of shacks " (G. C. POLA FALLETTI - VILLAFALLETTO, " the Castellata... " cit., vol. III, p. 268). the 2.10.2) ordered ordered ones are the reports of the sitting of the " Ordinary Council " of the community, di.le which bring back but only the final deliberations, the " orders ", omitting the report of the intermediate phases and above all of the argument. In the communal archives of Salassa if ne many are conserved, the greater part of the XVIII and XIX century. Most ancient it goes back, as we have already anticipated, to the 1548, while as far as XVIII the century exists tidy a Every day solo " or is book degl' ", containing the most meaningful decisions taken from the Community of Salassa from 13 30 January 1672 to January 1674. From a examination of these and other documents of legal type (Transcribed at least in part from G. CHIAPETTO, op. cit., document appendix inediti)č possible to gain some useful indications to the scope of our job. From the " testimonial ones of ordered for the conservatione de september 1672 yields " of the 7 law that: - the assembly gathered like of customary in the " Publica Piazza ";

- "... all Particular them of the present place which have uscij doors Around or qualsisia other opening in the essistente wall commune... "; - ".... debbino of hor ahead until made of the vindemie to put the guards to ambe the doors communi... ". the " Chapters " that specified the role exercised from the tax-collector of the " ransoms " came posted up on the " usual pillar " placed in the public square of the country (articles of the 1672-1673). It pays came paid, beyond that to the government sabaudo, also to the feudale and religious authority (" the tenth due to Monsignor Illustrissimo and Reverendissimo di Torino " and the " others that pay to the Reverend Mr. Pievano of the place "). In " Testimonial of Spells and deliberatamento " of years 1672-74 the Parochial Church " and one " Short (commune) existing outside of the Communal Door ". From such " Testimonial " come cited the " Common Palace nearby existing learn also Salassa were opposite to the plan to erect one ahead " wall... virtues piazzetta essistente furnace Consortile the saying " (of Valperga). 2.10.3) the division of the Community of Saint Ponso from that one of Salassa (the relative actions to the controversy have been analyzed from G. CHIAPETTO op. cit., part II, CAP. II). From the general measurement, happened in 1703, to continuation of the action of formal separation between the two common ones of the 1693, the consistency of the Salassese territory can be deduced: to Salassa they remain 980.95 days of land beyond to the common assets, ecclesiastical and feudali, and to lands " corroded common litigations glue Community of Castellamonte ", for a total of 1234.14 days (1 day = 100 tables = 3810 mq) correspondents to approximately 470 hectares. The esplica litigation then to leave itself from 1727 with the demands, advanced from Saint Ponso, of participation to the " bealera " for the irrigation of the prati ones, to the " two Furnaces you mail in the fencing of Salassa, and fornatico they ", and to the " House common with Room over, and situated ahead of it, like pure of other situated common one close to the Church de Disciplining. The all place setting to goblets, and similarly place in the aforesaid fencing ". (Subsequently the two furnaces comes indicated like " Furnace of cantone " and " the old Furnace close to the Common House "). 2.11) From the XVIII to XIX the century 25 January 1704 the common one of Salassa was freed to conte the Valperga di Masino even if continued to depend jurisdictional on the valpergano consortile. (To BERTOLOTTI, " Walks... " cit., vol. III, p. 127; G. PANERO in op. cit., p. 171). To continuation of the war of Spanish succession, burst at the beginning of XVIII the century, the troops of the King Sun occupied the Canavese (April 1704 newly). The French soldiers were forced to ritirarsi after the epica Victoria brought back to Turin from prince Eugene and Vittorio Amedeo II (7 september 1706) that she was received trionfalmente from the local population to its income in Ivrea.

The prince sabaudo, that he obtained the title of King and he ulteriorly magnified its dominions with the peace treaty of Utrecht (1713: date brought back on the meridian ones of salassesi settecenteschi buildings), undertaken one political of reorganization of the state in administrative, financial and legal field (in such sense in the communal archives of Salassa is conserved a copy of the " Directions published Constitutions " in 1729), continued from its successory ones to which the Canavese corresponded for all the Piemonte and in particular, along period of peace, nearly until expiring of the century, during which an economic important was recorded resumption. Also to Salassa agriculture marked clearly improvement, as it comes indirectly demonstrated from the renewed interest with which it is the community that the getlteman of Valperga predisposed an taken care of protection of the agricultural products, culminated in the emanation, in 1722 and 1773, of new rustic bands. These bands, whose drawing up was authorized on condition that to the assembly participated also the representative of the Valpergato, contained relative legal provisions to the campaign, like the pains previewed for thefts or the period admitted for the grape harvest, held account that the cultivation of the screw was one of the greater sources of yield of the community, to the peach, the pasture, and the maintenance of roads and rogge. (Vds. G. CHIAPETTO op. cit., part II, CAP. I). From the ban of 25 May 1752 evince that the assembly re-united in the usual " public Public square " was composed, beyond that from ordinary council, centodieci " Loops of House recording ", making and members more of the two third particular parts de of the present place ". These data concur us to calculate, with one sure approximation, the number of inhabitants of Salassa. Supposing, in fact, that every family was medium composed from five persons, the country had to then count little more than ight hundred individuals. According to the directives given from the monarch Carl Emanuele III, also to Salassa, to leave from 1740, came compiled a new cadastre.

Of this compilation they make part the catastale map, the registry of the particular and the " Rubrica of the Campagnuolo book of the Community of Salassa for the E regions coherences ", containing the piantine of the single land plots of ground. It is provided, moreover, in 1741 to the review of the borders of Salassa with the countries limitrofi. (Actions of General Measure De Territory of Salazza. Recognitione de Terms divisorij with Lands neighbors to Salazza ET actions made in the formation of the new Cattastro), (conserved near the communal Arch. of Salassa, papers scattered). In this period, as it turns out from the Index of the Feudi " next to the ancient nobiliari families deriving from the valperghese feudale aristocracy, they appear to Salassa, always with greater frequency, the " new noble ones ", to which the Savoia, behind payment of sums of money, had granted to titles and jurisdictions. The situation of stability of the Piemonte finished when the napoleoniche troops, entrances in Savoia in 1792, forced Vittorio Amedeo III to sign the onerous armistice of Cherasco (28 April 1796). Series of events to a chasing rhythm followed one: the war franc-Austrian, the peace of Campoformio (1797), the Cisalpina Republic, the civil war in Piemonte, the abdication of the monarch, the temporary Government, the victories franc-Russians, the landslide of the Republics spin-French and, finally, the return of Napoleone and the incorporation of the Piemonte to France. The Canavese lived of glare all these vicissitudes and had newly to support the burden of the contribuzioni and the military recruitments, and the serious consequences of the pillages and the scarcity. Some country joined to the new revolutionary ideas raising in the public square the trees of the freedom, while, at the beginning of XIX the century, bands of deserters and bandit increased the tension and disorder climate. Unfortunately, in the communal archives of Salassa the relative documents to this period of French domination reduce to the reports " de the Mairie " of administrative character (the " mairie " were the Mayor to the French). Moreover the introvabilitą of topographical papers of the Napoleonico cadastre makes to doubt on their effective drawing up. The age of the Restoration, begun in 1814, was characterized from the attempt of Vittorio Emanuele to reorganize the state sabaudo and to cancel all that that had a French print.

The independent legislative power of the salassese community finished with the processing of the rustic bands of 1819. The country, than to the half of the 1700's counted 850 inhabitants distributed in 138 families, had after the unit of Italy one population of approximately 1130 individuals. (Vds. To BERTOLOTTI, " Walks... " cit., vol. III, p. 134). 3 - EVOLUTION URBAN PLANNING Of VILLAGE 3.1) the original nucleus and the first widenings the possible evolution urban planning of the antecedent village to the map of 1741 is indicated in attached the 3. Before XIII the century sufficient elements do not exist in order to define the consistency of the salassese village. Perhaps the Viglino supports that the recetto of Salassa, databile exactly to the 1200, costituitosi in the urbanistico order still today noticeable could have inglobato an preexisting defended nucleus, of signorile pertinenza. (M. VIGLINO DAVICO, op. cit., p. 121 Vds. par. 5.1). According to the Panero (Cfr. F. PANERO (Recetto di Salassa), in AA.VV., " From Ivrea all around ", Turin, 1977, p. 170 that draws from the Settecentesco Cadastre the denominations of " old Villa ", " recetto ", " new villa ", and " via Rise "). A first widening towards the west of the original village, already constituted from the " old villa " (to east) and from " recetto " (to north), would be from putting in relation to the purchase of the flour mills and of tenth of Salassa from part of the accounts of Valperga in the 1251. (Vds. par. 2.2) the widening was put into effect probably later on or in forecast of a demographic increment, perhaps connected with the putting to lands cultivation new, under the control of the Valperga to which the increase of the cultivated area returned of maximum usefullness on which they they exercised the right of collection of tenth. This new western nucleus, in a sure successive age that is not possible to date with precision, came ulteriorly magnified and assumed the meaningful denomination of " mentioned new villa " in the settecentesco Cadastre. Consequently the main road of the village, that is the " way rise " that was tangent to the primitivo inhabited nucleus, divenne the median line of divisone of the country. In the complex the takeover assumed the shape of a rectangle, tilted towards the west, for the course from south-east to the north-west of the way rise, than ne divenne the carrying axis. The recetto it was found to occupy the northern angle of the village and ne it constituted the wider block, occupying, with its 4200 mq, approximately a fifth of the area total of the same village. However it is possible that, on the base of the little found indications in native place, the widening of the more ancient nucleus has only happened in the XV and XVI century that is during the successive period of peace to the first wars of the Canavese (Vds. par. 2.4), when the ricetto, trasformatosi by now from many years in stable takeover, was not more sufficient to contain a population in continuous numerical increase. In fact in a cell building long mail the current one via Cavour still today acknowledges architectonic elements of quattrocentesco stamp. While the house of the senate placed in a courtyard near the way rise brings date 1501, than but it does not know until that point is reliable. (Vds. photo 19 and 35) Nell ' all. 10 are indicated like medioevale house of the Rovetti and house of the Senate (Cfr. F. PANERO, op. cit., p. 171, that it resumes the affirmations of G. VIGLIANO, op. cit., pp. 46, 66, 108 and segg.)

Moreover it is not possible to delimit with exactitude the area occupied from the " old villa " because in the catastale rubrica of 1742 they come indicated like " gardens in old villa " only some particles of the east part of the village. Therefore it cannot be excluded that such building denomination only referred to the external island to the " fencing of the place ". Knows that to the half of XVI the century the country completely was encircled from walls, that seriously they were damaged during the war franc-Spanish. (Vds. par. 2.9) E' possible that a double building ring existed: that inside, correspondent to ancient recetto, and the that outside, more recent constitution, that it enclosed all the lived one and that had in common with the first part of the side the northeast. It walls had subsequently to be repaired because from how much Vds. par. 2.10.2 turns out from ordering of the 1672 () the village, still in XVII the century, was encircled from a " equipped wall commune " of two " Doors communi ", than probably they were situated to the two ends of the way rise. To that age, as they demonstrate also the successive rustic bands, the muraria town-walls was functional to the control of the collection of the agricultural products, in particular of the grape harvest, having lost the defensive character who them was just in the previous centuries. The date of the 1669 brought back on the muraria curtain parallel to the Levesa of via Chiaventone, could attest to the reconstruction happened in those periodo.(Vds. photo 32) the building perimeter had to be delimited to the north-west and the south-west from the bealera, to the northeast from the natural depression of the land, while to south-east the tracing had a lot to probably follow to incirca the current one via Batistes that in the cadastre of beginning ' 900 the toponimo still maintained of via of the Bastions. (Vds. all. 7) the construction of new external buildings to the building fencing must be successive to the civil war of the Canavese of the 1640-41 during which yields necessary construction of shacks in order to lodge the numerous French soldiers presents in the place (Vds. par. 2.10.2), even if is probable that already in previous age they existed to the margins of the lived one some manufactured of conventuale type like that one of Saint Sebastiano (spiazzo to the crossing between via Turin and Matteotti) traditionally said " cunvent ", perhaps than they drew origin from the takeover of ancient abbeys which but every news has gotten lost. Towards the end of the ' 600, when it began for the country a period of peace and suggellato economic pr0sperity with the freeing from the accounts of Valperga (Vds. par. 2.11), assists to one new expansion urban planning around the old recintato takeover that follows alone in part previous the orthogonal system as it comes documented from the map of 1741.

3.2) the map of the 1741 map of 1741 (Vds. all. 4) is substantially " in mass ", that is stacks productive particles, integrating in indifferenziate shapes the constructed zones even if some lotteries also being numbered refer clearly to manufactured, like as an example number 1868 that corresponds to the Church of the Small wood. However evidencing the constructed areas presumibilmente emerges from the settecentesca paper a urbanistico order of the country that confirmation the advanced hypotheses of seicentesco development previously. In fact it can be stated as around more the densely constituted recintato nucleus and weaving has been created fragmented city that in the southern part of the village it only assumes a greater aggregativa consistency even if this zone that, being numbered would not have to be built up, turns out of difficult interpretation because it is not distinguished completely from the communication ways. (Vds. all. 3). From a Particular analysis of the " Rubrica de recording of Salazza " of 1742, conserved near the Archives of State of Turin in attached to the map, other considerations can be drawn. In the first place the roads and the rogge public, that they come indicated with alphabetical letters, do not find correspondence in the paper, for which they cannot be characterized with precision. In the description of productive particles it can be distinguished on the base to their position, the " Recetto ", the " old Villa " and the " Fencing of the place " as it has been observed in the previous paragraph. They come moreover indicated the " large public square " and the " public square of the Madonna of the Small wood ", about which it will be spoken later on. From the famous map then still as already consoldation of the way had been come true in that period l ' Rise, through the realization of a " palace " still today existing, that it formed a spiazzo, probably of forehead to the common door, where the road master was branched off in opposite directions. In conclusion it can be observed that the urbanistico system of the country to leave from XVIII the century, loses its determined regular configuration from the first western widenings of the ancient nucleus that had carried to the formation of a closed city quadrilateral of approximately 240x240 meters furrowed from orthogonal ways. 3.3) paper I.G.M. of 1932 and the modernized catastale map to 1948 Like intermediate cartography from the temporal point of view, in absence of French Cadastre and Rabbis, we can take in consideration is the table of the Military Geographic Institute, whose relief goes back to 1932, than the catastale sheet modernized to 1948. (Vds. all. 5.6 and 7). The greater new developments, regarding the settecentesca map, regard the ways of city extra communication, because from the building point of view a greater city agglomeration in the zones of income to the country can be only evidenced, from where dipartono the main viarie guiding new, while to the inside of the village the nineteenth-century building transformations have not substantially modified the preexisting urbanistico system.

In the first years of 1900 the two roads of connection with the common ones of Valperga and Rivarolo come in fact constructed like extension of the way rise. Before it constitutes a great visual axis between the valperghese bell tower and the tower of the recetto, but it has transformed the consoldation of the " palace " in an anomalous one crocevia that subsequently a large problem for the practicability of the country has been revealed. The second rettifilo that Salassa to Rivarolo combines directly, intersects in proximity of the public square of the Small wood the new via for Oglianico that at least in part follows the settecentesco tracing. The external viario system to the lived one comes then completed in according to decade of the century with the realization of a street section towards Saint Ponso that allows to catch up the common railway station to the two countries. During years ' 20 the road for Valperga and the way of the station are placed along the first factories for the metallurgical working, been born from the conversion of old sawmills, that they mark the beginning of the process of industrialization of the salassese area. In such sense it goes remembered that already to the end of the 800 textile manufacture existed near the Valleri fraction one. 3.4) the fotogrammetrico relief of 1978 and the recent Plans Regolators During the period of the " economic boom ", Salassa have succeeded to limit the demographic outbreak that instead has characterized many near countries. The number of inhabitants according to the census of 1981, was contained in fact to 1618 units. However the absence of adapted urbanistici instruments has not allowed the control of the building development in years ' 60 and ' 70. The Common one of Salassa was unprovided of P.R. until years ' 80 and the previous plans of fabrication that accompanied the norms hygienic-buildings have turned out of insufficient effectiveness. From the processed aerofotogrammetrico relief from the Province in 1978 (Vds. all. 8) it can be observed as the expansion urban planning has happened along the greater ways of communication second logic of the single property. The historical center has been deturpato with building indiscriminate participations of restructure. The industrial areas often have been developed to ridosso of lived without zone-filter of separation and the specific ways for the shunting of the goodses. An other defect is constituted from squallido the building for placed lodging popular close to the distant station but more than a km from the center. The problem of the practicability that had congested the country in spite of the realization of two short sections of circonvallazione (via Giacosa and Gozzano), has been resolved single in 1975 with the construction of 460 new S.S. external to the lived one.

The approved of urbanistici plans in years ' 80 (Vds. all. 9) have tried to place remedy, seppur in delay, to the situation of building degradation, limiting on one side the single operations in favor of participations coordinated with detailed plans and plans of recovery, and from the other supplying greater services of collective type that then have been realized with the realization of a sport and recreational area to ridosso of the state road. However the resumption building of the last years is contributing alone in minimal part to the improvement of the conditions of the historical center of the country. 4 - PUBLIC SQUARES 4.1) Public square of the Tower and the Parish This public square constitutes still today, like in the passed centuries, the center of the public life of the country. In fact it carries out still a religious function, in the sense of processionale place and reunion of the faithfuls innanzi to the parochial church, and a civil function, in the place sense on which the main public constructions of the country show oneself, (the town hall and, the communal palace tower recetto former), even if the recent transfer of the municipal center in the large public square, in practical, has mitigated this last role. Even if historical news does not exist precise is presumable that already to the half of XIII the century, the public square perhaps constituted from an area, crossed from the bealera, that separated the zone of recetto the mail to north from the religious nucleus and the old villa to south, while on short sides, was delimited from the way rise and from the flour mill like turns out in the schematic reconstruction of attached the 11. E' much probable one that only gives the half of XVI the century (goes back in fact to the 1548 first ordered communal ones) the public square has become the public place of reunion where it convened the Mayor and the Council of the Heaies of the family for the argument and the approval of the communitarian reports. Previously the control of the before space the church and the tower must be depended, exclusively the feudale and religious power like comes demonstrated from the purchase from part of the valperghesi accounts of tenth and the flour mills of the village in the 1251. From the ordered ones of the 1672 it is learned that was one consolidated praxis the election of the representatives of the people, to the beginning of the year, in the " public public square " to the presence of all the salassesi perceived from the sound of the bell. In the same year, a " Communal Palace is cited nearby existing the parochial church ", that it could correspond, to current situated the municipal one. In all probability it goes back to this period the definitive cover of the roggia for the necessity of a common space of reunion adapted to the number of the inhabitants of the village. The main building transformations of the public square only happen but in the first half of XVIII the century when the country affiancatosi in 1704 from conte the Valperga di Masino, crossed a period of peace and economic pr0sperity.

The greater assessed participations regard: the construction of the Church of Disciplined to closing of the side the oriental of the public square (comes next characterized in a situated document of 1727 to common (a Vds. par. 2.10.3); the elevation of the tower in 1725 (as it is testified from the date impressa on the manufatto one and from the relief executed from Of Andrade in 1879) (19 Vds. all.) that it becomes one true and own bell tower; the realization of a building with porches and residual loggie in woven the medioevale one to flanking court the parochial church (similar to the manufactured place more to south of the meridian country with of the 1713 Vds. photo 13). The map of 1741, however, defines alone the contour of the western part of the relative public square to the communal palace and the lottery of the Church of S. Giovanni Batiste, whose number but does not find correspondence in the registry of the Particular of 1742, as it happens instead for " the large " public square and the Church of the Small wood. Even if a unitary plan of preordered transformation does not exist, is logical to think that this series of building participations aimed to strengthen the religious function of the public square, held account that the pievani reverends came from the more important families than nobiliare derivation that had increased their power with the new investiture granted from the Savoia in this period. That is confirmed also from the successive one, widening of the parochial church (Vds. all. 12), devised in 1768, than cause the narrowing of the opening of the alley place of forehead to the tower. During the 800 the public square at least maintains the function political (until to the unit of Italy) and religious that it had consolidated in the century previous acquiring but a greater honor to continuation of the sistemazione of the facades of the Churches and communal palace (the BERTOLOTTI " Walks... " cit., p. 129) speaks about recent construction of the communal house, and the paving in stone happened around to the half of the century. Other ottocenteschi participations of completion regard the modification of the basamentale part of the tower (Vds. all. 13) and the construction in 1868 of the asylum with the adjacent courtyard separated from the public square by means of a wall of recinzione with portale of monumental income. The construction, in fascist age of the " town hall ", with the demolition of some building cells of the recetto placed between the Tower and the church of the confraternita one, has emphasized the public function of the public square that in that period has caught up the current configuration if some debatable participations much of restructure of the private manufactured one placed of forehead to the tower and asfaltatura of the nineteenth-century paving, of place encircled exclusively from buildings are excluded nearly religious publics and, as it can be found from catastale planimetry modernized to 1948.

4.2) the large Public square Corresponds to particle n. 296 of the catastale map of 1741, that it comes identified in the " Rubrica de Particular Recording of Salassa " of 1742 (conserved near the Archives of State of Turin) like: " contiguous large Public square to the fencing of the place... ". Such definition jointly to its position to ridosso of the crocevia of roads that carried towards Valperga and Rivarotta, could indicate that this public square was the place in which the exchanges of agricultural and handicraft products with the communities happened limitrofe, let alone the manifestations of popular character tied to these business activities, even if logically own public square of the market of city type cannot be spoken about one true and. To support of this hypothesis it is also the fact that in this area to the contrary of the other public squares does not find the presence of Churches or buildings publics. And moreover the distance of the tangent bealera to north the public square, could adequately be taken advantage of for operations of washing and abbeveraggio of the passage cattle. In any case the public square constituted since century XVIII a public area of respect of the northern income of the recetto. As far as the buildings that define the side south of the public square not have documentary news until the second half of XIX the century when the 1868) society of mutual aid between the laborers was founded (, neither can be drawn important indications from one they direct analyses seen the transformations building that they have endured in the course of the last century. It can be only noticed that such buildings still today respect the alignment of the map of 1741 where the angle the northeast of the recetto already free from was manufactured. The construction of the imposing elementary school in years ' 20 has subordinated the use of the public square to this building. The closing of the side oriental of the public square, than until the beginning of the century was occupied from folta a vegetation, has been then capacity a.termine recently with the realization of the new town hall to ridosso of the scholastic building. 4.3) the Public square of the Small wood In the " Rubrica " of 1742 is defined to n. 1868 like " Public square of the Madonna of the Small wood ", because a lot probably, constituted end from the construction of the church, happened in XVII the century, the external place of celebration of the religious rituals, in homage to the protecting Vergine of the country. The shape to funnel of the current public square traces that one designed in the map of 1741. According to the oral tradition it seems that it had been in the slid century, the first place of inumazione of the dead men until the creation of the cemetary in the area of lazareto cinquecentesco (Vds. par. 2.10.1) close to the nail head of S. Rocco, but however this hypothesis is not guaranteed from no written. The construction from the coming from provincial road from Rivarolo at the beginning of the ' 900 prettamente modified conferendole the religious character of the public square also a function of representative type in how much space of income of the country towards vital Turin. This role comes ulteriorly emphasized during the ventennio fascist when the public square becomes a tree-lined area for the civil and religious celebrative manifestations but also the place where the common agricultural operations like the mietitura of the grain are carried out. Currently the situated one comes used normally as parking in which they find place also the weight public and a fuel distributor, and only irregularly buys back that connotation of commemorative space that it had in the past. 5 - RECETTO and CHURCHES the recetto, the churches and the buildings of a sure historical-architectonic importance are indicated planimetric in attached the 11.

5.1) the Recetto (Vds. the analysis of the recetto salassese of M. VIGLINO DAVICO, " the prescriptions defended collective for the men of the peasantry in the medioevale Piemonte ", Turin, 1978). The Latin definition of term RECEPTUM can be considered exaustive to the aim to describe to the characteristics and the use of this typical medioevale organism " locum fossalatum ET munitum... in quo persons ET bona, blank ET secure receptari veterans ET to manere valeant, maxime bellarum temporibus " (place fortified and with ditch... in which persons and assets can find shelter and remain blank and sure, especially in time of war). E' be advanced moreover the hypothesis of a possible coincidence of identity between recetti and borghifranchi to the inside of which the stimulated population to trasferirvisi in order to acquire the citizenship rights, had the task to defend the rising village. The defended nucleus (recetto) of Salassa is situated in the quadrant to north of the village, in position elevated regarding external lands to the lived one. E' conserved to the inside of the same nucleus the toponimo of via Rocetti. On two sides it turned out delimited " to bealere ", that they allowed to overwhelm of water the perimetrale ditch of defense; the Recetto has almost square shape (approximately 60/65 meters of side that is 1/10 of the centuriata mesh dell ' " ager pubblicus " Roman) and introduces an only income defended from one Tower place in one of the 4 apexes. The atypical position (is the only found case) of the income makes to presume the adaptation of the nucleus of formation to one preexisting Torre. The viario system of the Recetto is constituted from an only inner ring with central connection, so as to to create two rows of inner building cells; four formations of building cells then are leaned to wall. Not there are traces of the " way of lists ". a slargo is place to way of I invite to the passage under the Tower. The muraria curtain is almost inidentificabile, in destroyed part and part inglobata in the manufactured ones. E' possible however to still characterize of the sections, in worked pebbles " to thorn of fish ". Within to the ricetto rises medioevali buildings, and in particular the so-called " Torrazzo ", probable inferior part of one casatorre square going back to XI the century, represented also from Clemente Rovere. Little cells conserve traces of the medioevali building structures because massive participations of transformation ne had modified the characters already in XVI the century. To these participations they go made to go back the beautiful manufactured ones with logge lignee to rastrelliera on mensoloni sagomati. 5.2) the Tower of the Recetto (previous Famous Vds.).

It sure constitutes one of monuments of greater pregio between those individualistic ones to the inside of the village, not only for its state of conservation but also for the singolaritą that characterizes its position, tipologia and constructive technique. From always it comes considered the symbol of the country; in the map of the 1741 tower it is the only building represented by means of ribaltamento of the prospect in the diagram (like supports perlomeno the Viglino, second a type of not infrequent rappresentazione in the settecentesche maps; this expresses the clear will from part of the cartographer to evidence this monument, presumibilmente since then considered worthy of particular attention. The cylindrical tower of Salassa constitutes a rare example of turrita door of access to the recetto. Its structure decidedly turns out unusual: round, but on rectangular base, and one characteristic difficultly found in other present constructions of the same type in the zone is this variation of shape as rooms. Some authors doubt of the pertinenza to the recetti of cylindrical towers supporting their belongings to more energetic systems of defense or however to one fortificatoria phase previous to that one of the recetti. The unusual constructive nobility that characterizes the construction would seem in fact to confirm the hypothesis of belongings of the Tower to systems of defense of signorile pertinenza. Particularly interesting then turns out to be the position of the Tower and therefore of the income that it proteggeva in that such income is not found, like usual in the recetti more known and as the same formulation of the fencing and the inner lotteries would make to presume in means of one of sides but just in the chine to south of the complex, in asymmetric position, much rare one is for recetti that for whichever the other defensive construction. The atypical position of the income (is the only found case) ago to presume therefore the adaptation of the nucleus of the country in formation to one preexisting Torre confirming therefore the hypothesis before enunciated. However less than the Tower it did not belong to an ancient " altomedievale castrum ", in consultabili documents to leave from XVI the century does not come mentioned l ' existence of a center fortified definibile like castle. The Tower has cylindrical shape on rectangular base and has the passage covered from a voltone to botte. The height total is of 25 meters approximately; it diminishes of meters 2.50 if calculated to the last shelf that corresponded to the zone of the merlons identifiable to the outside with the advanced frame to indents. To approximately half height an only window with cooked frame in (databile is opened towards the outside to XIII the century) for the immediate guard to the saracinesca of closing. The inferior part is constituted from pietrame legacy with malta much poor one while the advanced part, executed probably in two times successive is realized in masonry. Such advanced part has been probably elevated in 1725; that is testified from the date impressa on the manufatto one and from the relief executed from Of Andrade in 1879. The income only carraio, is wide little more than two meters and wide equally to the tax. It came closed by means of a anta to saracinesca that vertically ran in one obtained rabbet in the pietrame; the command of rise and reduction was realized with ropes that slid in appropriate holes proceeds in two stones arranged under the inner arc of the income, was then a second closing to two antoni, of which the supports of the left hinge are still visible: one circular stone advancedly pierced and a socket in means of the base.

E' possible still to characterize attacks it of walls to a height of 6.3 meters approximately (unusual height for a muraria curtain of a recetto that of usual it did not exceed the 4.5 meters). The access to the Tower is today possible through one scale sluice from one masonry and covered from roofs to pantalera according to the plan of 1838. the 5.3) Churches the present Churches in the communal territory are six: the Parochial one dedicated to S. Giovanni Batiste, of the Madonna of the Small wood the Nail head and, the Sanctuary Confraternita Disciplined three dedicated to S. Giuseppe, S. Peter and S. Rocco. The Parochial Church of Salassa is one Pievania or Pieve (Vds. par. 1.4). The first news that ne tries the existence goes back to XIV the century. (Vds. par. 1.6) the plan of 1768 (Conserved near the Archives of State of Turin, annexed Types to the patents sec. XVIII, Type of clear the parochial Church reg.to sheet 9. Vds. all. 12), relative to the construction of three altars and the presbiterio, documented the configuration to three navate of the church, of which one central and two lateral ones. The main altar (Gianelli Altar) in inlaid black marble brings, the date of construction of 1764, while others two altars, according to the Bertolotti (M. BERTOLOTTI, " Walks... ", cit., p. 130), had been made to construct in the 1667 and the 1676. The pavement of the presbiterio is of 1849. To the first half of century XIX it goes back also the rifacimento of the facade of the church of neoclassico stamp. The reconstruction of the building, happened to continuation of the landslide of the cover of 1951, has modified irrimediabilmente the structure inner and changed the external aspect of the construction. (Vds. photo 15) the Church of the Confraternita of the Disciplined ones, that it comes cited for before the time in documents of 1727 (Vds. par. 2.10.3), must have been reconstructed in part or in toto towards the half of XIX the century like testifies the brought back date of 1852 on the altar. To south of the country the Sanctuary dedicated to the Madonna of the Small wood rises; such denomination is due to the situated one and is tied to an apparition of the Vergine happened in the ' 600 and testified also from some actions written up from a notary public of Cuorgnč. The church came since built up on an existing pylon the 1500 (hour inglobato in the altar), was more times rimaneggiata: widened in the ' 700, in 1820 the bell tower and two altars were erected.

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ARCHIVI CONSULTATI

- Archivio di Stato di Torino, sez. I e sez. riun.

- Archivio Comunale di Salassa

- Archivio Arcivescovile di Torino.

8 – ALLEGATI

1) CARTA DEI SITI ARCHEOLOGICI

2) CARTA DEI TRACCIATI ANTICHI

3) SCHEMA PLANIMETRICO RICAVATO DALLA MAPPA DEL 1741

4) COPIA DELLA MAPPA DEL 1741

5) TAVOLA I.G.M. 1:25.000

6) INGRANDIMENTO TAVOLA I.G.M. 1:500

7) PLANIMETRIA CATASTALE 1:1.000

8) RILIEVO AEREOFOTOGRAMMETRICO 1:5.000

9) PLANIMETRIA AGGIORNATA AL 1986 1:2.000

10) PLANIMETRIA EDIFICI STORICI

11) SCHEMA PIAZZA DELLA TORRE NEL XIII SECOLO

12) PROGETTO DI AMPLIAMENTO DELLA CHIESA DEL 1768

13) PROGETTO BASAMENTO TORRE DEL 1838

14) SCHEMA RECETTO (VIGLINO DAVICO)

15) SCHEMA RECETTO (CAVALLARI MURAT)

16) TORRE (FOTO FERRO)

17) RILIEVO TORRE (VIGLINO DAVICO)

18) DISEGNO DEL RECETTO DI CLEMENTE ROVERE

19) DISEGNI E RILIEVI DEL D'ANDRADE

20) DOCUMENTAZIONE FOTOGRAFICA E VECCHIE CARTOLINE