Today, Balma Boves – an old settlement built under an enormous rock roof – is a museum hamlet situated at an elevation of 652 m and at a distance around a half hour of easy walking from Rocchetta di Sanfront.
During the Risorgimento, the Castiglia became a penal institution and as such, it went through different eras: the Italian Unity, fascism, the post-war era, and finally its closure in 1992.
The Museum of Chivalry, situated on the third floor of the Castle of the Marquises of Saluzzo “La Castiglia”, is a fundamental waypoint to relive the history of the Marquisate.
The idea of installing a small museum dedicated to the history of cinema in an alpine valley might seem surprising. However, it should not if one’s entire life is characterised by an unconditional passion for this technique of artistic expression.
The Mallè Museum is a place of remembrance, a portrait in the round of a man who’s great passions were art and collecting.
In the Museum of Religious Art in Acceglio one immerses in an ancient world populated with rituality, faith and sacrality.
The Museum of Pels in Elva houses the memory of a unique trade which grew up in the mountains of the Maira Valley – that of the hair collectors.
An exhibition itinerary which tells the history of the fascist war and of the partisan war in the Stura Valley. It follows the path of a photographic exhibition accompanied by video contributions, military objects and equipment, memories of the war, numerous arms from the period, including a Breda machine gun, all of which give an idea of the material conditions in which the soldiers and partisans were living.
visitmove.it - Comune di Saluzzo - p.iva: 00244360046 - info@visitmove.it - Co-finanziato con il Fondo di Sviluppo e Coesione PAR-FSC 2007 - 2013
