Chestnut Ecomuseum

Bard

In the ancient times the chestnut was a base component of the peasant diet, especially in mid mountain villages.

In the village of Albard di Bard, to demonstrate the processing of this product a ‘‘grehe’‘ has been set up, a characteristic small two-storey rural building used to dry chestnuts.
In the same building, in the area once used as a deposit, you can see the original equipment for processing chestnuts along with illustrative panels: the hammer to open them, the pincers to extract them from their cases, the sacks of rough hemp to be beaten on a wooden block to remove the shells, which were then eliminated by shaking it with a winnow (’‘lo van’‘, in dialect).

The museum is only open for special events.

Contact

Municipio di Bard
11020 BARD (AO)
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