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MUSEUMS
CUSTOMS OR MINES PALACE
The historic Palace now houses an ethnographic museum
Built in Fiera di Primiero around the mid-fifteenth century and later renovated, as evidenced by the date 1558 placed above the entrance portal, the Palazzo del Dazio or delle Miniere now houses a small ethnographic museum curated by the Documentation Center for the History and Material Culture of Primiero. Restored in 1988, it has an exhibition organized on three floors. On the mezzanine floor, where the section on craft activities begins, there is the blacksmith's room, the carpenter's, the saddler's, the itinerant chair maker's, then the spinning and weaving sections, household objects, haymaking and cultivation, and dairy. On the other floors, it is possible to find material on mining activities and on the works of engineer Luigi Negrelli, designer of many European railways and creator of the Suez Isthmus cut.
The crenellated walls and the double row of loopholes were intended to emphasize the high rank of those who lived there. Sigismund, Archduke of Austria and Count of Tyrol, had the palace built to serve as the seat of the Bergrichter, the mining judge who oversaw the mines and forests of Primiero. Its construction therefore dates back to the period between 1350 and 1500, which corresponds to the flourishing and increase of mining activity in the silver and copper mines. The precious metal was kept in this fortified palace, and then sent to the Mint of Hall in Tyrol. On the building's facade, you can admire a sequence of coats of arms of cities subject to the Habsburgs, while inside, the remains of fine wall paintings from 1568 give an idea of the chromatic splendor of the rooms.
FOR INFORMATION
Piazzetta del Dazio, 2, 38054 Fiera di Primiero TN
HOURS: Hours may be subject to change, it is recommended to contact the Library OTHER MONTHS Opening for guided tours by reservation.
Contacts Library Fiera di Primiero Via Fiume, 6 38054 Fiera di Primiero, Italy +390439625150
PALAZZO SCOPOLI
Palazzo Scopoli is a prestigious fifteenth-century building and ancient warehouse of Tonadico. At the end of the Middle Ages, the structure became a place where justice was administered and, in the 1400s, the property of the Scopoli family, a family of notaries, who expanded and decorated it. Some significant symbols from this period are the sixteenth-century fresco decorations and the small chapel. In the nineteenth century, the Scopoli family declined and the palace became a popular residence for the town's disadvantaged families. Even today, traces of paintings from various eras can still be admired on the main facade.
This building hosts “The House of Food,” which is a place dedicated to promoting the region by offering meetings, tastings, and conferences to tell the story of the Valley and help visitors discover one of its greatest assets in terms of quality and variety: typical food products and varieties.
On the hill overlooking the town of Primiero and the Palace stands the little church of San Vittore. Its exact date is not known, but the first records in documents date back to the fourteenth century. The nave and the apse have been decorated over time with at least four layers of paintings; on the upper register a medieval pictorial cycle is visible, depicting the main stages of Christ's life, while on the counter-façade stand out representations of Paradise, Purgatory, and Hell. Finally, in the apse, a "Dormitio Virginis" and scenes of the martyrdom of Saints Vittore and Corona are painted.
FOR INFORMATION
Piazzetta Marzollo, 3, 38054 Tonadico TN Tel +39 0439 764946
https://piccolimuseiaprimiero.it/palazzo-scopoli-casa-del-cibo/
ECOMUSEUM OF VANOI
It is a museum of space, time, the community and its knowledge. It extends to the entire territory, to nature, to the landscape, to the places of human activities, to material and spiritual culture, composed of many spaces to be recognized and experienced daily.
A museum of time, which from the past of mankind, follows it into the present, opening up to the future, focusing on recognizing continuity in history, possible transformations and evolutions.
A community museum, in which the population recognizes itself and seeks its own values, offering them to its guests in order to be better understood, with respect for its work and its identity.
A museum of knowledge still present in activities and skills, preserved in the mastery of many inhabitants, still recoverable as a work resource and able to be re-proposed in new creative and entrepreneurial forms.
The territory plays a crucial role, as do the environment and landscape that have permeated the cycles and rhythms of the past, present, and future life of its community. The Ecomuseum believes in and wants to promote initiatives for fair and sustainable development, consistent with the identity and vocation of the territory, with the aim of raising the quality of life of its inhabitants and ultimately building a "glocal" community.
The calendar of proposals for the discovery and enhancement of widespread heritage is organized around seven themes: water, wood, stone, grass, sacred, war, and mobility.
FOR INFORMATION
Ecomuseum of Vanoi Piazza Vittorio Emanuele III, 9, 38050 Canal San Bovo TN
Tel. 0439 719106
www.ecomuseo.vanoi.it