If you want to enter the heart of Badaluco, you have to go through a gate. Passing through one of the city gates is like entering a time machine. There’s an outside and an inside. Inside is safe. Outside, you can get lost. There is a gate on a bridge, one overlooking the water, another going up to the castle and still another that is part of the chapel of San Sebastiano. Protector against infections. Which, not surprisingly, come from outside. It’s now time to do our security round, gate by gate.







