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…
In the nineteenth century the aristocracy was in decline and sold their properties to the entrepreneurial bourgeoisie. The presence of numerous workers in local factories favoured the birth of the “Societies of Mutual Aid” ( Società di Mutuo Soccorso). In 1861 the Kingdom of Italy was born. The “Technical Institute“ Leggi tutto…
The Napoleonic occupation in Piedmont brings many changes to the administration including the abolition of convents which were bought and sold by the government. They became hospitals and barracks and some of the churches were demolished (Sant’Agostino, San Francesco and Sant’Andrea). In the monastery of Santa Clara the textile factory Leggi tutto…
