From the reconstructions of traditional agricultural activities to the suggestive section on Witchcraft, where the testimonies of tortures and interrogations offer an intense and dramatic insight into local history.
Visiting the museum means immersing yourself in a living story of the past, a combination of ethnography and mystery that makes the museum an unmissable destination for those interested in discovering the roots and legends of the Triorese territory.
Triora, The Village of Witches
The Triora Ethnographic and Witchcraft Museum today collects many ancient objects – but sometimes still in use in remote villages of the municipal territory, such as Borniga or Goina – which testify to a particularly lively and vibrant peasant and pastoral culture.
The museum is currently divided into the following fifteen rooms, developed on three different floors.
Entering on the Street Level, four rooms dedicated to the area surrounding Triora and its local history: the room dedicated to Art and Crafts, the Archaeological room, the room dedicated to Fauna and finally the one dedicated to the life and memories of Margherita Brassetti.
The Basement floor houses the Ethnographic Section of the Museum, divided into its five Cycles: Life in the fields, the Chestnut Cycle, the Milk Cycle, the Kitchen and the Cellar. The Library volumes are located in the corridor at the end of the flight of stairs.
Underground
Going down into the basement, formerly home to the prisons, you enter the section of the Museum dedicated to Witchcraft, where you often experience contrasting sensations, from curiosity to fear of the supernatural.
In fact, if on the one hand beliefs and superstitions are still very much alive in the country today, the documents preserved in the State Archives of Genoa – but faithfully reproduced here – tell of terrible tortures and ruthless interrogations that took place during the 1587 Trial.
Four gloomy rooms are dedicated to this tragic chapter in local history. In two of these scenes of the interrogations and imprisonment of the accused women are reconstructed. In the other cells, in addition to the trial documents, craft witches are reproduced in their daily actions.
Lastly, it is also possible to visit the Garden where, among ivy and other climbers, immersed in the scent of Luisa grass, miniatures and glimpses of Triora are reconstructed.
MES
Regional Ethnographic and Witchcraft Museum
Corso Italia 1
Triora (Imperia)
Liguria – Italy
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