Culture

"La Bötega del Frèr" Museum

The museum, located inside the workshop of a blacksmith from the first years of the 18th century, it is however able to move the operating machines located in the first room of the workshop, through a hydraulic wheel. In the forging room instead you will find equipment for forging iron as well as a vast series of products; in the last room we would like to highlight, among the various technologies, that related to building weights, measurements and steelyards. …

“Stories of wagons and cartwrights”

The ecomuseum was established with the idea of givin historical value to the tradition and building techniques of farm wagons. The farm wagon, used by the citizens of Zimone, was the essential instrument that brought together work in the fields with the home, daily labour to family affection. The objective of the museum is also to display what the cartwrights represented for the territory and how the wagons made farm work easier.

“The Iron and Diorite” ecomuseum

The ecomuseum, inside the Mineral Centre, has a Museum of Minerals and equipment of the Traversella mines that has a mineral collection of more than 300 samples, a systematic collection of minerals that are typical of the local deposit, an exhibit of work equipment and instruments recovered inside the mine and the adjacent buildings. In the external area of the complex, educational itineraries offer the possibility of visiting the Mineral Geopark: a portion of the …

“Time Memories” Educational Museum

A strictly educational museum set up inside the Town hall, displays multiple objects used during the 19th century and in the beginning of the 20th century divided into themed sections. Each displayed piece is catalogued with the name in Italian, in Piedmont dialect and accompanied by a description about how it was used. There are archeologicalartifacts from the Roman Era and fossils present, as well as casts of rock engravings, whose presence was found in many …

18 Apartment building

Marcello Nizzoli and Gian Mario Olivieri (1956)

This complex completes the residential building cycle of the Castellamonte district. The building consists of three blocks with different heights and a single façade on the West side. On the other hand, elevations are highly articulated for the diagonal cuts of the balconies and for the supremacy of vertical and horizontal components.

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2018 Ivrea Industrial City of the XXth century

The Industrial City of Ivrea was built in the years between 1930 and 1960, out of the desire of Adriano Olivetti and according to a design that was meant to be an alternative to national and international experiences carried out during the XXthcentury.The site is composed by a group of architectures associatedwith the industrial and socio-cultural project of Adriano Olivetti. It consists of an array of buildings designed by the most important Italian architects and …

AMI MUSEUM NETWORK

The Ecomuseum of the Ivrea Morainic Amphitheatre has promoted and organised the AMI Museum network since 2011. This is a project that involves a group of municipalities in the area in implementing a widespread museum system by creating a network of existing small museums and ecomuseums. The initiative envisages a single promotion action, coordinated and continual site opening, training a group of young operators and their employment in museums, involving local …

Archeological Park and Museum exhibit area of the Pistono Lake - Moltalto Dora

The exhibit space for Archeology of the Pistono Lake was inaugurated in November 2012 inside the town halls, documenting the Prehistory of the inframorainic lakes of Ivrea from the Neolithic period to the Metal Age. The culture and lifestyle of these first inhabitants of a land between mountains and water are told through archeologicalartifacts of significant scientific importance.

The exhibit develops between themed units corresponding to display cabinets and …

Biandrate Castle of San Giorgio

The origins of the San Giorgio Canavese Castle are in a complex of Medieval buildings built for defensive purposes and then transformed throughout the centuries to adapt it to subsequent requirements. Normally you can distinguish a more antique building, presumably from the XII-XIV centuries, with only very few traces remaining, and a more recent one attributed to the XV-XVI centuries.

The Vercelli and Ivrea Bishops, the Monferrato Marquise and maybe even the …

Church of Saints Pietro and Paolo of Pessano

The village of Pessano which like Paerno, contributed to populating the hamlet of Bollengo, in 1250, quickly disappeared, while the Romanesque church of the hamlet protected by the Cathedral Chapter of Ivrea, has been preserved to this day.

The bell tower is located centrally to the façade, being a clocher porche (bell tower porch); from here the single apsed nave is accessed, divided into two bays by a wide arc; on the walls there are the remains of frescoes …