Culture

"La Bötega del Frèr" Museum

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:54:47 GMT

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. There is also a vast sample collection of locks and equipment for agriculture.

“Stories of wagons and cartwrights”

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:58:07 GMT

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

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 14:07:19 GMT

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 galleries, the extraction well and the engine room.

“Time Memories” Educational Museum

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 14:00:47 GMT

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 areas of the Morainic Amphitheater of Ivrea.

18 Apartment building

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:14:12 GMT

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

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 08:04:43 GMT

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 urban planners of the XXth century; a design that is perfectly detectable in the urban weaveof the city.
The area is perceptible mainly along the axis of Via Jervis, hometo the buildings intended for production, for the factory and the city social services, and for the dwellings that are to be considered among the most important examples of the innovative approach createdby Olivetti.
The architectural heritage of the City is also a fundamental milestone in the profiling of architectural and urban planning repertoires of the late twentieth century.
Differentarchitectures that constitute the various ways in which technical cultures have tried to cope with city growth regulations and with territories invaded by industrialization processes.
In Ivrea, the Factory Culture of Olivetti and the Community Movement experience, involved, for the first time in Italy, both, architects and urban planners, with the aim of giving life to an extensive design of the city.
The ensemble of buildings that compose the industrial city of Ivrea, is a set of well-preserved buildings intended for the industry, for services and residences of exceptional architectural quality, among the most striking material expressions of a modern vision of production, conceived by the most representative Italian architects of the twentieth century and by the technicians of the factory.
Built between the years 1930 and 1960, their individualvaluelies in the marriage between the innovative capacity of expression of these modern architectures and the awarenessof being part of an exemplary economic and social project permeated by the idea of Community.
This is the underlying reason that has enabled the registration of Ivrea as the industrial City of the XXth century, on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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AMI MUSEUM NETWORK

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 10:33:48 GMT

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 economic partners and associations that give value to the territory and local heritage.

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

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:55:55 GMT

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 explanation panels used to help understand how and with what peoples from the Neolithic lived and in what way cultural progress influenced their daily life.

Properly inserted in the reference chronological context, the showcases present the archeological material that was found during the studies carried out at the Pistono Lake and the result of research in progress. The prehistoric settlement is characterised by the presence of a cultural horizon involved in at least two structures, of which one was residential, which can be referred to the Middle Neolithic (4900-4500 AD).

Ceramic elements make it possible to place it in the Isolino type Square Mouth Vases culture that characterises the sites near the lake, with pile-dwelling structures in Piedmont and Western Lombardy.

The municipality of Montalto Dora, along with the scientific guidance of the Piedmont Superintendence of Archeological Heritage, proposes an in-depth and dynamic reading of the site, offering the scientific community, but especially a heterogeneous public, a precious building block that is part of a reconstruction of the settlement all the way back to the Prehistoric Era.

The final project will be full of ideas that go beyond the framework of the site within its territorial context and are the inspiration for an in-depth analysis of the themes related to problems of the North-Western Italian Neolithic, with ample references that also go outside of the limited geographical boundaries. The unity of the setting for the entire communication system within the exhibit makes it possible to create a bond between the publicised territorial promotion initiative, a very important and effective aspect in order to build a coordinated image within the entire archeological, environmental and cultural information system.

Biandrate Castle of San Giorgio

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:23:38 GMT

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 Templars exercised their dominion on the Castle until, in the XIII century the property definitively passed to the Biandrate Counts.

Throughout the centuries San Giorgio ands its castle were frequently theatre of wars between Savoia, Monferrato, Spain and France, but the sieges of great armies were almost always victoriously warded off.

After the peace of Cherasco in 1631, San Giorgio definitely became part of the Savoy and the castle was subject to important changes by Guido Aldobrandino who is most likely responsible for the uniform structure of the “new” part. At the beginning of the 18th century, at the same time that the San Giorgio property was purchased by the Foglizzo branch, Aldobrandino restarted the works modifying the caste with more energy and terminating in 1726.

In the XIX century a period of decadence and oblivion began, this caused damage but also made it possible for us to now have the building in its appearance of the 18th century, highlighted by the restoration started by the company the castle now belongs to.

Among the richly decorated rooms, the Sala deiMelograni (Pomegranate room), the Sala deiTrofei (Trophy room), the Sala delleChimere (Chimera room), the Sala degliAironi (Heron room) and Sala delleConchiglie (Sea shells room) are the most distinguished, framed by a vast English style park.

Church of Saints Pietro and Paolo of Pessano

Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:21:24 GMT

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 dating back to the fifteenth century and an ancient section of lattice work with a geometric crosshatch design. On the right side of the building there are two more recently added presbytery rooms. The bell tower is spread over six floors and has five background paintings surrounded by pilasters and suspended arches; the slit openings on the third floor are located in the upper part a single light window and two mullioned windows with two lights.

Church of San Giacomo di Montestrutto

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:51:04 GMT

The church is located on a rocky spur next to the Montestrutto castle, it dominates the plane and the town below. The building with a single room, with dating that remains uncertain, for certain aspects reminds of the Maddalena of Burolo (among them bell tower placement next to the facade). The current church still keeps traces of antique frescos that ornate the first part of the internal nave and the original facade, while the rest is a result of a subsequent intervention. In the XV Century the building was expanded by extending the area of the presbytery that is slanted compared to the central body, since the workers were forced to follow the shape of the rocky spur. The same bell tower, on the right corner of the facade, orignal at first side, has been raised and handled as has the rest of the structure.

Church of Santo Stefano del Monte

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:57:25 GMT

The church of Santo Stefano in Candia was build in the XI or XII century. Along with the duomo and the Fruttuaria abbey, it constitutes one of the main testimonies of Romanesque architecture in the Canavese area.

Placed on the top of hill overlooking the town residential area, in a panoramic position from which it dominates the Canavese Morainic basin, has been subject to significant changes throughout the centuries.
The first documental information regarding the church date back to 1177, thanks to a bull written when the church and the adjacent priory became property of the canonical of the Ospiziodei Santi Nicolao and Bernardo di Monte Giove (Gran San Bernardo)
The establishment date most likely is even earlier, probably in the XI century, at least for the most antique portions, such as the central area of the facade, that rested against a bell tower that has since then been lost, placed on the side compared to the entrance. The hypothesis is that on the hill dedicated to it there were already remains of early-Christian and even Roman buildings.
Inside the church the three naves are divide by walls with arches sustained by robust quadrangular cross section pillars. At the end of the central nave, using a stone staircase with thirteen steps, you can access the elevated presbytery.
Maybe the most suggestive part of the church is the crypt, located under the presbytery and most likely dating back to the period when the central apse was rebuilt. It is held up by thin stone columns with used capitals, most likely coming from the primitive parish church of Candia or the related Baptistry.

Ciucarun - The bell tower of San Martino di Paerno

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 12:47:52 GMT

The suggestive bell tower elevates solitary in the middle of Serra d’Ivrea, where the village of Paerno once was.

In 1250 Ivrea founded the fortified village of Bollengo and ordered the populations from Pessano, Paerno and Bagnolo to establish there. The village of Paerno decayed quickly and only the church and the bell tower remained: the first was demolished in 1731, leaving the second as the only evidence of the past.

The “Ciucarun”, as it is called from the locals, is six floors high, highlighted by five frames made of hanging arches that connect the angular pilasters; from the bottom upwards, it has the typical succession of openings: slots, single and double mullioned windows, all of them walled up except those on the last floor. At the base, on the West side, there is an arch opening visible, now walled up, which was one of the access points to the bell tower, and traces of walls confirm the presence of the connected church.

Civic Museum “Nòssi Ràis”

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 14:01:51 GMT

Located in the birth home of the historian Carlo Botta (1766-1837), the museum illustrates the life and agricultural and artisan activities of the past (this gave the name “our roots”) with work instruments, reconstructions of environments and clothing of that era. It is an important collection of documents regarding the material culture, among them, a curious “horn straightener” and 2 examples of the 19th century phono-stenographic machine of Antonio Michela, from San Giorgio, which is still used today, in an updated version, in the Italian parliament.

Credenza Palace

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:40:16 GMT

The Credenza Palace, build in terracotta with two floor pointed arch portico with pointed windows, was probably built around 1300 to give a new seat for the Municipality Council. Next it became the headquarters of the Credendari, the Councillors of the free Municipality of Ivrea of the XIV century.

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Ivrea Municipality

Ducal Castle of Agliè

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:16:09 GMT

Formerly known as the San Martino Fortress, the castle of Medieval origin, in the middle of the 17th century was transformed into a Manor by literate count Filippo San Martino d’Agliè, with works entrusted to Carlo di Castellamonte. In 1764 the residence was purchases by the Savoia family and rebuilt according to a project by Ignazio Birago di Borgaro.

Abandoned after the Napoleonic invasion, the Agliè castle flourished once again in the 19th century, due to the will of King Carlo Felice, who chose it as his favourite holiday residence along with the Govone castle. With the death of Maria Cristina, the widow of Carlo Felice, in 1849, the Castle was inherited by Carlo Alberto and his youngest son Ferdinando, first Duke of Genova.

In 1939 the State purchases the Agliè property from the dukes of Genova and during the war period the Caste was secretly used to store objects and documents from residences and museums of Turin, with a great risk of export by the German command, among these the Egyptian antiquities from the Turin Museum.

Transformed into a museum thanks to the Cultural Heritage Department and surrounded by a park with English and Italian Style gardens, today the Castle has more than 300 rooms, richly decorated and furnished, such as the ballroom, with frescos from the 17th century, the entrance hall, with 18th century stucco, the art gallery, with a precious collection of archeologicalartifacts. At the entrance you find a beautiful fountain with 18th century statues symbolising the Dora Baltea that flows into the Po, a work by Ignazio and Filippo Collino.

Recently the castle has been rediscovered for its beauty by the general public, even thanks to the television series Elisa of Rivombrosa that chose this location for its episodes.

Ecomuseum of the Chestnut

Fri, 05 Aug 2016 13:00:41 GMT

The ecomuseum of Nomaglio has an antique watermill, still in operation, used to grind chestnuts from you can obtain the flour used to make gastronomic products. The ecomuseum system is integrated with an external marked route which, starting from the central square of the town, rises up to the chestnut groves where it is possible to see: century old chestnut trees, the antique buildings where the leaves were kept, the burr storage buildings where empty burrs are disposed of and the field dryers, where fresh chestnuts are turned into a dry product.

Factory Canteen and Entertainment Centre

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:00:05 GMT

Ignazio Gardella (1953 to 1961) with Roberto Guiducci and UPECC.

Located in the backsideof the Officine Complex and close to the former Convent of San Bernardino, the hexagonal building is the outcome of the experimentation of the late production of F.L.Wright.

It has become an architectural icon thanks to its symbolic and social value, but also due to its concept of industrial city.

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Former Carpentry

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:10:37 GMT

Ottavio Cascio (1955)

The interest of this building resides in the colored brise-soleil (sun breaker) of the façade, designed by the chief of the Technical Department of Olivetti, who used the blades of the sun breaker in various architectural proposals for factories.

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Former Sertec building

Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:14:41 GMT

Ezio Sgrelli (1968 - 2007)

Designed as the center for the engineering of civil and industrial building services led by Antonio Migliasso, the building is particularly significant forhaving been one of the very few Brutalist-origin projects in Italy.

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