{"id":15907,"date":"2025-10-01T16:22:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T14:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitcogne.it\/guida-virtuale\/chapel-of-tarabouque\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T08:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T06:35:35","slug":"chapel-of-tarabouque","status":"publish","type":"guida-virtuale","link":"https:\/\/www.visitcogne.it\/en\/guida-virtuale\/chapel-of-tarabouque\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapel of Tarabouque"},"featured_media":15895,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":""},"categoria-guide-virtuali":[546],"class_list":["post-15907","guida-virtuale","type-guida-virtuale","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria-guide-virtuali-tsapelle-de-cogne-en"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.visitcogne.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/tarabouque-cappelle-cogne.jpg","oID":15892,"toolset-meta":{"link-interno":{"id-link-interno":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"titolo-link-interno":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"guida-virtuale":{"audio":{"type":"audio","raw":"","attachment_id":null},"domanda-adulti":{"type":"textarea","raw":""},"risposta-1":{"type":"textarea","raw":""},"risposta-2":{"type":"textarea","raw":""},"risposta-3":{"type":"textarea","raw":""},"domanda-ragazzi":{"type":"textarea","raw":""},"immagine-1":{"type":"image","raw":"","attachment_id":null},"immagine-2":{"type":"image","raw":"","attachment_id":null},"immagine-3":{"type":"image","raw":"","attachment_id":null}},"coordinate":{"latitudine":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"longitudine":{"type":"numeric","raw":""}},"media":{"logo":{"type":"image","raw":"","attachment_id":null},"galleria-video":{"type":"embed","raw":[]},"galleria-foto":{"type":"image","raw":[""],"repeatable":[{"raw":""}]},"galleria-link":{"type":"textfield","raw":[""]},"galleria-allegati":{"type":"textfield","raw":[""]}},"paragrafi":{"titolo-paragrafo-1":{"type":"textfield","raw":""},"testo-paragrafo-1":{"type":"wysiwyg","raw":"The chapel was built by the inhabitants of the hamlet on 27 November 1657. Originally, it must have been a small building with a rectangular plan. In the first half of the 18th century, in the minutes of pastoral visits by the Bishop of Aosta, it was described as always being in good condition and in 1762 it was the object of an important bequest in the will of Jean-Ours Bochet. The ridge beam of the fa\u00e7ade bears the engraved date 1752. In 1849, the chapel was enlarged with the construction of the slightly narrower choir, visible at the back. In the years between 1927 and 1928 it was restored. On the fa\u00e7ade, stratigraphic investigations revealed some inscriptions that had been covered by several layers of lime; in particular the one below the letters \u2018NA\u2019 of the later dedication inscription of the chapel bears the date 1780.\r\n\r\nThe original furnishings of the 17th-century chapel consisted of a canvas dated 1656 depicting St. Anthony and St. Bernard and an ancient statue of St. Bernard, now kept in the parish. The current wooden altar, painted and gilded, seems to date from the 17th century, with the statue of St. Bernard in the central niche, accompanied on either side by those of Saints Margaret and Agatha. In the cymatium at the top is a statue of the Virgin with Saints Anthony and John the Evangelist.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<h3>Between history and legend<\/h3>\r\n\r\nA famous legend is linked to the chapel of St Bernard of Aosta in Tarabouque. Every year in spring it was customary for a procession to go up to the chapel, but each time the devil delighted in capturing the last believer in the line. Saint Bernard decided to place himself at the back of the procession and when the devil approached, he threw his blessed stole around his neck, which, in the face of the devil\u2019s attempt to wriggle out, turned into an iron chain and forced him to sink into an abyss.\r\n\r\nThe story of the \u2018B\u00e8quet de Tarabouque\u2019 is also intertwined with the history of mining exploitation. According to tradition, when the Sardinian government granted foreigners the exploitation of the Larsinaz lode in 1854, discontent soon began to spread among the local workers, who complained about the disrespectful and socially insensitive treatment of the place by these foreign industrialists. The protest materialized. Overnight, the conspirators went up to the mine (1,899 m) and burnt all the sledges used to transport the ore; from Cogne, although they saw the high flames coming from the mine, no one moved. The company reported the fact to the magistracy in Aosta who, believing in a revolt, sent all the possible carabinieri and two companies of bersaglieri to Cogne.\r\n\r\nThe examining magistrate interrogated the numerous suspects who all revealed that the perpetrator of the crime had been the \u2018B\u00e8quet de Tarabouque\u2019, the devil of Tarabouque in the patois of Cogne; not understanding the local dialect, the investigators thought it was a gang leader. In short, the soldiers led to the little church burst in, believing they would find the criminals there, but instead they only saw the statue of St Bernard with the \u2018b\u00e8quet\u2019 chained up."},"titolo-paragrafo-2":{"type":"textfield","raw":""},"testo-paragrafo-2":{"type":"wysiwyg","raw":""},"titolo-paragrafo-3":{"type":"textfield","raw":""},"testo-paragrafo-3":{"type":"wysiwyg","raw":""}},"generalita":{"classificazione":{"type":"select","raw":""},"titolo":{"type":"textfield","raw":""},"sottotitolo":{"type":"textfield","raw":""},"note":{"type":"wysiwyg","raw":""},"marchi":{"type":"image","raw":[""],"repeatable":[{"raw":""}]},"alert":{"type":"wysiwyg","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitcogne.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guida-virtuale\/15907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitcogne.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/guida-virtuale"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitcogne.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/guida-virtuale"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitcogne.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visitcogne.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria-guide-virtuali","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visitcogne.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria-guide-virtuali?post=15907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}