The Eco-museum of Shepherding was officially founded in 2000 in Pontebernardo, an alpine village at 1400 meters above sea level in the municipality of Pietraporzio (CN). However, the actual origin of this cultural, economic and social reality can be traced back many years before, when the Stura Valley Mountain Community<\/em> embarked on a journey of cultural revival and economic revitalisation of the activity of shepherding and the socio-anthropological context connected with it. On the one hand, the Eco-museum began with the recovery of the Sambucana sheep breed, indigenous to the valley, which was in danger of disappearing in the 1980s. On the other hand, it rediscovers the cultural heritage of the valley’s pastoral world and its offshoots in the French Crau, which for decades was home of many mountain dwellers who kept Merino sheep in Provence to supplement their family income.<\/p><\/div><\/div>