Characterized by the emergence of the Holy Roman Empire and the temporal power of the church, the early Middle Ages end with the year 1000. Chieri appears as a rural village, an imperial “Curtis” under the control of Landolfo, the bishop of Turin. In his testament (1037) he recalls that Leggi tutto…
Carreum suffered a drastic demographic decline and a downsizing of the town from the end of the second century AD, probably due to the hydrogeological instability that caused the landslide of the unstable hill of San Giorgio with the consequent abandonment of large sections of the city. In the area Leggi tutto…
In 1957 explorers of the Chieri section of the “National Body of Young Italian Explorers” discovered fragments of pottery and bricks from the Roman Age in a field in Fontaneto road (in the Maddalene area). After these first discoveries archaeological research in Chieri and in the surrounding Chieri area began. Leggi tutto…
The exact administrative borders of the “municipium” of Carreum-Potentia are unknown. It was located in the centre of a field that had been subject to drainage since the 2nd century B.C. It was inhabited by settlers from central Italy but was excluded from the great commercial route represented by the Leggi tutto…
The name of “Chieri” comes from the Celtic root “Karr”, changed in the Roman Age to the official double name “Carreum-Potentia”, as mentioned in the list of towns made by the Roman historian Pliny the Elder in the middle of the 1st Century A.D. We know very little about the Leggi tutto…
Welcome! We are in the former convent of San Filippo Neri, an eighteenth century building, part of which are the baroque church and a chapel now used as an exhibition venue. The convent housed the Archbishop’s seminary from 1828 up until 1949. The student Giovanni Bosco, to whom the exhibition Leggi tutto…
