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Our proposal for an ethnographic itinerary in search of the traditions and history of our ancestors in the province of La Spezia can only start from the "Giovanni Podenzana" Museum, the heart of our journey. The museum's collection contains a whole series of important testimonies of our past, which can then be found in the other stages of our itinerary. Dedicated to the musician, ethnographer and naturalist Giovanni Podenzana, the museum brings together what was already the anthropological section of La Spezia's civic museums in 1873. The collection today includes many objects from the Magra Valley and the Vara Valley. Above all, textile and wooden materials identify the collection, whose finds can be dated from the 18th to the 20th century. Obviously, ample space is given to family manufactures, which bear witness to the harshness but authenticity of an economy largely based on the agro-sylvo-pastoral system, with its specificities and distinctive features that now risk being forgotten. Several themes are addressed by the collection. An important space is dedicated to the goldsmith's art, which then takes us to visit the sanctuary of Riomaggiore, with its collection of ex-voto golds. This is flanked by the section on popular devotion, which refers to Arcola and its Majesties, to which we dedicate a stage. The art of weaving, documented by perfectly preserved typical clothes, makes us think about visiting Biassa, the village where most of these clothes were woven. The domestic environment is the penultimate theme, before the one more generally devoted to the agricultural and pastoral economy, which leads our route to conclude in Brugnato, to visit the very special hanging threshing floors, known as "altane". These are some of the proposals that can make a visit to the La Spezia area interesting, in search of pleasant, uncontaminated places rich in history, on the trail of the traditions and customs of our ancestors.

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"Giovanni Podenzana" Town Ethnographic Museum > Le "Altane" di Brugnato

Type Itinéraire : roaming

Thème : History