Bienvenus. Nous nous trouvons dans l’ancien Couvent de San Filippo Neri, un bâtiment du XVIIIe siècle dont ils font partie l’église baroque et une chapelle maintenant utilisée comme lieu d’exposition. Le Couvent fut le siège du séminaire archiépiscopal du 1928 jusqu’à 1949. L’étudiant Giovanni Bosco parcourut ces couloirs à qui Leggi tutto…
The concept of landscape was created in Italy, a harmonious fusion of nature and culture. Chieri also possesses a large capital of beauty and natural biodiversity, some of it now altered and eroded. It is an area rich in visible elements that are an integral part of the history and Leggi tutto…
The local history section of the Public Library holds around 10,000 volumes dedicated to the Chieri and Turin area, to the Piedmont province and to the regions, covering a wide range of subjects. The collection of Chieri periodicals begins in1873 with the “Cittadino Chierese” (the “Chieri Citizen”) and thanks to Leggi tutto…
The textile museum is a place where you can see looms, warping machines, measurement and weight instruments, watercolour sketches, books, magazines, graduate thesis and old and modern catalogues of patterns. The textile museum in Chieri was founded in 1996. It is rich in equipment from Medieval times to the XX Leggi tutto…
The Municipal Historical Archives of Chieri conserve the most ancient documents of the town. The oldest document dates back to 1194 and is an alliance treaty with the town of Asti. The documents are very varied. There are the minutes of the council (from 1328), accountancy registers, taxation books and Leggi tutto…
The M.A.C. (Chieri Archaeological Exhibition) illustrates materials excavated by the Gruppo Archaeological dei Giovani Esploratori (Archeological Group of Young Explorers) and a selection of artefacts recovered from stratigraphical analysis conducted over time under the supervision of the Regional Archeological Authority. The artefacts are from the Roman age through to the Leggi tutto…
Chieri has also known two world wars, fascism and the Resistance. In spite of these events, it seems to have survived in a “situation of superficial tranquility”. Some textile factories were significantly extended at the beginning of the century: Gallina, (in the first years of the century); Caselli, (between 1934 Leggi tutto…
At the beginning of the twentieth century the inhabitants of Chieri numbered 13,803. This would increase to 15,000 people by 1950. From the beginning of the 1960’s the mass migration of people from the south to the industrialized towns in the North saw the population double (30,511 in 1971). Most Leggi tutto…
On the 16th of September 1888, the original fund for what would become the Nicolò and Paola Francone Public Library of Chieri, was constituted. Within the ambit of the Society for Welfare and Instruction, a mutual aid society founded that same year with the aim of providing social assistance and Leggi tutto…
19th century Chieri cultural heritage is almost all housed between the walls of the Cathedral (the Duomo). The stations of the cross by Rocco Comaneddi date back to 1810 and the painting of “The Invention of the Sacred Cross” by Giovanni Vacca, to 1815. The general restoration of the Cathedral Leggi tutto…
