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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The battle by the people of Chieri to gain independence from the power of the bishop and his allies – the empire and the vassal counts of Biandrate – began in the 12th century. In 1155 Federico Barbarossa, in agreement with Carlo, bishop of Turin, sent the army against them. Leggi tutto…
The bishop, in charge of the Chieri “Dominion” together with Count Guido of Biandrate, on 7th April 1168, authorized the men of Chieri to meet and to appoint consuls- political institutions which testify to the birth of the Municipality. In Mercadillo Square (Mazzini Square today) the town council met. Begining Leggi tutto…
Towards the end of the 13th century the local lords, many craftsmen and merchants from the villages and the countryside, flooded into the town. The new middle class united in the “Society of San Giorgio” and challenged the ancient military aristocracy of the “Society of San Guglielmo”. The latter had Leggi tutto…
In the second half of the 14th century Chieri was the most important centre of the Turin area, thanks to significant privileges such as mercantile exemptions along the routes and the Alpine passes that led to areas of great financial and commercial interest (Savoy, Burgundy and Flanders). These were the Leggi tutto…