Casa Pellico

Located in the picturesque Mondagli Square, one of the most picturesque corners of the historic centre of Saluzzo, Pellico House is a building of medieval origin that gave birth to the 1789, to the writer and patriot Silvio Pellico, who spent his childhood years there.

Today the mansion is set up as house-museumwith pellican relics and manuscripts donated largely by the writer's sister in the 1858.
On the ground floor, one room is dedicated to Pellico's literary activity, with a introductory video which traces his life and works. On the first floor, a large selection of reproductions of title pages of My prisons, testimony to the extraordinary publishing fortune of the work, which was published in hundreds of editions. Of particular note is the neoclassical hall, fully decorated, in which reconstructed a 19th century writer's study.

The building is located just outside the wall circle of 1280, near the ancient Mondagli gate, demolished in 1890.
The restorations carried out by the Municipality of Saluzzo after the purchase of the property from the last owner, the professor and poet Silvio Einaudi, have made it possible to restore legibility to the history of the house: the four frescoed ogival arches form its original structure; in the Five hundred an elevation with loggias, now walled up, was added; while the early 19th century goes up the enclosed and terraced loggia at the level of the small square, overlooked by the elegant neoclassical salon decorated.