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Inside two historic buildings you can understand how people lived and still live in their homes, in the open spaces, in nature. In a word, you will discover ethnography. A population and its way of being. A mountain area to discover. A Liguria that is not that of the coast and beaches, as many imagine it, but that lived on crops, livestock, crafts, trade, investments, study. There are important figures and moments for the construction of this story. Father Francesco Ferraironi, in the early part of the twentieth century, wrote about his native land, collected books and testimonies and created an exhibition of popular culture in 1960. First stone of a museum collection. The religious was far-sighted. After twenty years in Italy, the cultural movement of the rediscovery of popular life, of the world of places isolated and depopulated by modernity, was alive. In this case, the mayor Luigi Capponi, the teacher Paolo Ansaldo, the Pro Triora association, the local young people, the Department of Educational Institutions of the Municipality of Genoa were fundamental: all contributed to the creation of what today is the original scope of ethnographic collections. In local products, even today, there is the legacy of a centuries-old know-how. In 1987, the National Conference promoted by the Municipality of Triora and the University of Genoa on the occasion of the fourth centenary of the witchcraft trials brought Triora to international interest in the painful story of the witch hunt. Triora, land of witches. It is now a local identity brand. The new space for the story is the Ethnostorical Museum of Witchcraft, the MES, to which the Municipality of Triora, the Liguria Region, and the Ministry of Cultural Heritage have competed. Innovative, dramatic, based on the studies and reading of Paolo Portone, one of the leading experts in the field. A project still in progress which is based in the elegant Palazzo Stella. A place where the alleged witches were also imprisoned. Their redemption is also in this choice. Finally, get out of the historic buildings and move around as you wish, because every metre of stone wall, every door, every window, every balcony, every painting and work of art in the many religious buildings, every type of dwelling, every step into an unspoilt natural world, every glance towards the mountains, every hand placed on the stone of a climb, everything is past time that lives on.

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