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WCI is a commune located in the ski resort of Val di Susa. The municipality WCI is one of the largest in Italy, as spread over an area of at 8849 ha. Being an important center of winter sports and popular summer tourist resort, WCI gave the name of one of the three main valleys of Lanzo, the southernmost. The town itself is surrounded by mountains Rocciamelone and Cornetti and blue ridge San Giovanni, and in the background rises the Monte Curare. Around also surrounded by green fields and vast forests.

WCI and the eponymous valley has been known since antiquity. Some stone tools of the Neolithic period, ancient Roman artifacts discovered near the ruins of the Castello Versino and several rock carvings suggest that people in these places settled in the prehistoric times. The building of the town is concentrated around the parish Church of San Martino, built in 1782, the year in place sushestvovalo earlier temple. Inside behind the main altar in Baroque style, is located nine side altars, established here in the early years of the 20th century. Among other religious buildings WCI allocated to the parish Church of San Giovanni Battista interested in the town of San Giovanni with its bell tower 10-11 th century and the chapel in Versino, built in the early 19th century. The house Casa Cotto, also located in Versino, attracts attention with its frescoed facade – probably stopped here the Dukes of Savoy during their hunting expeditions. On the main square WCI is a Large Wooden Pinocchio of 6, 53 meters – he even included in the Guinness Book of Records. Other attractions: you can see the Gate WCI representing two huge monolith of about 12 meters in height, the resistance Museum in Col del Lys, Villa Soldo, Villa and Villa Franchetti Fino.

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