The library The municipal library, together with its detached section, adheres to the Pinerolese Library System and offers services to anyone registered in one of the participating libraries. Registration is free and for minors you need the authorization of a parent. The services offered are: on-site consultation of books and magazines; lending of books, magazines, e-readers and DVDs; internet connection with wi-fi or through 3 fixed pc stations, with the possibility of...

The gallery The Civic Gallery "Filippo Scroppo" in Torre Pellice is a "small museum of contemporary art" which preserves a heritage of unexpected importance: it has in fact about four hundred and fifty works by Italian and foreign artists of the second post-war period, mainly collected by the artist and cultural animator Filippo Scroppo (Riesi 1910 - Torre Pellice 1993), through donations from artists and collectors, and acquisitions by the...

History Eugenio Crumiere (textile technician), born in Annonay but technically raised in Alsace, moved to Val Pellice at the end of the 19th century to start his own production business here. In those years in Val Pellice there were several productive settlements: in 1833 the Mazzonis factory in Pralafera Luserna S.G. was founded. in 1855 the Mazzonis Manufacture of Torre Pelice in 1892 the Turati Brothers Society in Luserna S.G. In...

The Museum of Games and Toys was built in August 2003 following the donation to the Municipality of a prestigious collection of objects that belonged to Dr. Giovanni Peyrot, according to an agreement signed by the Mayor geom. Piergiorgio Ghibò. From the beginning to today, the collection has been greatly enriched with objects, both in quantity and quality, thanks to the donations of more than seventy friends; has doubled its...

Three steps towards the stars until you touch them, three steps to bring them closer ... These poetic words (see footnote) are well suited to those who, climbing the steep slope that leads from San Giovanni to Colletto, find themselves in front of the magnificent structure of the Val Pellice Astronomical Observatory, designed and built by the Astrofili Association Urania from the now distant 1989. The structure is immersed in...

Structure The Waldensian Cultural Center Foundation is located in Torre Pellice, in the street named after the English general Charles Beckwith, a figure who played an important role in Waldensian history. In the same street there are the main Waldensian buildings of the town: the temple, the houses known as “professors' houses”; the “Unionist House”; the Waldensian House, seat of the annual Synod of the Italian Waldensian-Methodist Churches; the European...