Within the complex of the Palace of Venaria, in the eighteenth-century stables spaces designed by Benedetto Alfieri, the conservation and restoration center "La Venaria Reale" - Institute for Higher Education and Research for the preservation of cultural heritage, has been founded in 2006. Know the Venaria in a more direct and exclusive point of view: a journey in the world of conservation and restoration of cultural heritage.
On Lake Como, where water always carries goods and people in a border area, delevops an interesting marine industry, which has become the synthesis of the skills of an entire area, from carpenters (the old "maestri d’ascia ") to super skilled workers specialized in metal, plastics, electronics and mechanics, and textile. Lake Como is home of major sailing clubs and research centers of design, materials and technology, it hosts competitions of national and international boat championships. Navigation on Lake Como has ancient origins , the first documentation of shipbuilding dates back to the XVI-XVII century. Through centuries, tradition never prevented constant technological upgrading; indeed, in the trade practice was usual to design and build each boat as a unique and new, never the same as above, in the same time preserving the memory of ancient traditional methods, perhaps crossing them with other elements.
Un viaggio nelle botteghe "rinascimentali" contemporanee, tra esperienza, passione, manualità creatività, passato ed innovazione. E’ possibile conoscere il Bel Paese anche attraverso la storia dei mestieri e della materia, perché l’Italia deve gran parte del patrimonio storico e culturale all’abilità e alla competenza degli artigiani del passato.
