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Abbey Casanova

Abbazia_Santa_Maria_Casanova Full of masterpieces, the Cistercian abbey (founded around 1150) is one of the earliest examples of Gothic in Piedmont, with later Baroque alterations. The original foundation remains today only the church, whose facade was rebuilt in 1680.


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Abbey Square - Carmagnola (TO)

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Additional Notes

Further information: http://www.cistercensi.info/abbazie/abbazie.asp?ab=1022&lin=it

 

Museum of Natural History

museo_storia_naturale The museum is home to the first visitor center of the Po River Park, gateway to the trails that lead to the Nature Reserve of St. Lanca Michael and the Forest of Gerbasso. The exhibition rooms have suggestive environments, dioramas, models and collections of fossils, minerals and animals (insects, beetles, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds)


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Park Farm Vineyard
on St. Francis de Sales, 188 - Carmagnola (To)

Information

011 9724390 - Tel 011 9724390 - This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Additional Notes

Official Site: www.storianaturale.org

Admission Adult: € 2.00

Reduced admission: € 1.00

 

Living Museum of the Culture of Hemp Processing

hemp Under a long shed, last real town feel that still exists in San Bernardo, was preserved and handed down the skilful culture of hemp processing and manufacturing of strings, one of the oldest crafts of our area. Hemp cultivation and production of fibers manufactured from this area of Carmarthen has ancient origins: for hundreds of years the trade of raw fiber ropes and sturdy flourished nationally and internationally. The Living Museum of the culture of hemp production is located in a "feel" (processing path) original (built in 1905 and used until the mid 50's) located in Borgo San Bernardo: under a long canopy are preserved ancient tools and an extensive documentation relating to work and trade that involved most of the local population. Purpose of the museum are passing on the history and culture of processing and manufacturing of ropes, and not to squander the wealth of tools used during long time.

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Via Crissolo No.10 - Borgo San Bernardo

Information

Tel 011 9721491 - Cell 338.4701298

Additional Notes

Website: http://www.museipertutti.it/dettaglio-museo.aspx?id=38

  • Full: € 2
  • Reduced: € 1
  • Free admission with Subscription Museums and Torino + Piemonte Card
  • Rate for the disabled person and the carer: a whole.
 

Carmarthen Castle

castle Built in the thirteenth century by Manfredo II Marquis of Saluzzo, in part by the Spanish destroyed and rebuilt by the French in the mid-500, 1700 to 1863 was used as a convent by the Philippine Fathers.


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Piazza Manzoni - Carmagnola (TO)

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http://www.comune.carmagnola.to.it/

Additional Notes
It now houses the Town Hall.
 

Synagogue

423px-Sinagoga_di_Carmagnola_2 The Synagogue of Carmel is what remains of the ghetto: a cluster housing minute, separated from the texture of squares, churches, streets and arcades of the city.

The Synagogue has retained its original characteristics unchanged eighteenth century, and is recognized for the linear forms, for suggestive sequence of spaces, for the graceful elegance of the furnishings, such as the most valuable and meaningful in Piedmont. In rooms on the ground floor was built by the Jewish Community of Turin a permanent exhibition, curated by architects Franco Lattes and Paola Valentini.

During the visit, through various media of communication, the issues related to space take the form of synagogues. The path, as far as possible, through a timeline, from eighteenth-century prayer halls, remained in their original configuration, through the nineteenth century renovated synagogues, until the Israelite Temples of Turin and Vercelli. Two examples, Carmagnola and Turin, are an opportunity to read in more detail the transformation of architectural concepts, the role of urban and symbolic values ​​related to them, that characterize the synagogues before and after emancipation.


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Via Bertini, 8 - Carmagnola (TO)

Information

Coop. Artefacta - Tel 347.4891662 / Jewish Community of Turin - Tel 011.6508332

Additional Notes

From 1 April to 30 June and from September 1 to October 31 every Sunday from 15:00 to 18:00


Every Sunday Mercantico (the 2 nd Sunday of the month) hours 10:00 to 12:00 / 15:00 to 18:00

 


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