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Piazza dei Valdesi

Where Piazza Dei Valdesi, 12, Cosenza

The Square is linked to the "Massacre of the Waldensians of Calabria", consumed at the expense of the people who professed a faith contrary to the canons of the Council of Trent. In June 1561, over a thousand Waldensians were detained in the prisons of the Montalto Uffugo Castle, while another hundred was locked up in the basement of Cosenza Castle, awaiting trial: in the Square, on June 27, were consumed by the fire five of them (among them, the preacher Bernardino Conte), burned alive after being anointed by resin. Today, on the Square there is the palace headquarters of the Superintendence for Archaeological Heritage.

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