Via al Forte - Accessible by car and a short walk, which can be visited on request to the landowners
The control of the Waldenses and the need to defend a territory flanked by the French dominions in Val Chisone and Valle Po determines the new fortification, in 1560, of the castrum medieval of the Lords of Luserna, dismantled by the French in 1549. The site was disarmed and demolished by the French of Lesdiguierès in 1593, but the site was fortified again in 1655, during the persecutions of Charles Emmanuel II against the Waldensians.
The fort was pentagonal, with five small bastions at the top, with a moat and service buildings inside consisting of two quarters, the headquarters of the command, the cistern and the chapel.
The final divestment of the fort occurred during the Augusta League war. In 1690, in fact, the savoys folded into the safer Fort San Michele, attacked by the French, after having mined part of the fort. Before retiring to Pinerolo, the French carried out other demolitions with the mines, without however determining the complete disappearance of the work, the remains of which are widely creditable.
