We present a detailed description of the tectono-stratigraphic architecture eclogite-facies Internal Piedmont Zone (IPZ) metaophiolite, exposed in Lanzo Valleys (Western Alps), which represents remnant Jurassic Alpine Tethys. Seafloor spreading and mantle exhumation processes related to Tethys evolution strongly conditioned intra-oceanic depositional setting, resulted an articulated physiograph...