Culture

Church of San Giacomo di Montestrutto

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 …

Church of Santo Stefano del Monte

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 …

Ciucarun - The bell tower of San Martino di Paerno

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 …

Civic Museum “Nòssi Ràis”

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 …

Credenza Palace

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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Ducal Castle of Agliè

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 …

Ecomuseum of the Chestnut

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 …

Factory Canteen and Entertainment Centre

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

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

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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