Discover the evolution of local architecture and the way of life from times past. Extraordinary opening on Saturday, April 27th!
"Casa Grazioli," known to everyone as the "Casa de la Béga" (perhaps from Bäcker, baker in German), was the nickname of Domenica Grazioli, the woman who lived there until 1991. Acquired by the Municipality of Peio with the aim of enhancing it for museum purposes, Casa Grazioli, a peasant dwelling in the small hamlet of Strombiano, has become a house-museum, a symbol of the Ecomuseum of Val di Peio. Except for the necessary conservation interventions, there is nothing artificial about it: a simple house that preserves in every single room an extraordinary history layered over the centuries.
It breathes the soul of the past's daily life, a history of women and men, of work and devotion. The rooms, spread over three floors and an attic, include two old kitchens, with walls blackened by the smoke of open fires and a stone oven where bread is still baked today. The largest room houses the collection of agricultural tools. The nineteenth-century bedroom is lined with wood (the "Stua"), heated by the potbelly stove, where the Béga slept and where everything has remained unchanged, including the clothes in the wardrobe, family photographs hanging on the walls, and the elementary school report card.
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