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Extract from the Verrs and Issogne Travel Guides:
Buses and trains continue up the main valley to
VERRS
, an undistinguished village overlooked by the gloomy cube of its virtually impregnable fourteenth-century
fortress
(Sun 10am-6pm; L6000/?3.10). This is a stark, primitive place, built by the lord of the town, Ibelto di Challant, primarily as a military stronghold. The spartan soldiers' quarters give some idea of the conditions under which they lived; the Challants' quarters are barely more comfortable, although their fortress does go down in the history books as one of the first to install a toilet. If you need a
room
in Verrs for the night,...
read the whole Verrs and Issogne Travel Guides...
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