This Savoie city, strategically located between Turin and the western Alps, was first mentioned in the tenth century. De Amicis described it as Piemonte’s most beautiful city. It saw military and religious activity in the middle ages and achieved fame as a French political prison until the Revolution.
Pinerolo was the setting of the eighteenth-century French novelist Alexandre Dumas’ Man in the Iron Mask, made into a 1998 film starring Leonardo di Caprio.
MTW customers visit this elegant, charming city as part of the ‘Rebel Valleys‘ itinerary.