CASTELLO DI ROCCA DE’ BALDI

The Castle of Rocca de' Baldi was created with a purely defensive character, but was transformed over the centuries into the noble residence of the Morozzo della Rocca family, invested with the Marquisate of Rocca in 1675. The Castle, which today is dark red in colour, was originally made of white stucco with black decorations like all the Morozzo family's buildings, and the adjacent Badia, which remained in the family's ownership, still looks like it today. In later years, the building was the home of several bourgeois families and then became, in the early 20th century, the headquarters of the Agricultural Colony Orphans of War which from 1923 to 1973 housed, educated and prepared for life and work the hundreds of children who were welcomed there over the years. On the first floor of the Castle you can visit the rooms inhabited for two centuries by the Morozzo family, where a specific exhibition itinerary has recently been set up with panels dedicated to some members of the family and their stories of public and private life.

The second floor houses the Provincial Ethnographic Museum Augusto DoroIt houses one of the most important and interesting multimedia museum sections on rural ethnography and the agricultural landscape of Cuneo. Antique maps and topographical charts, tools and photographs relating to rural life in past centuries illustrate the great transformations of the environment and the birth of today's rural landscape, all aspects of cereal cultivation, from ploughing to storage, and their relationship with the territory and the economic, social and cultural history of our region, in a multimedia itinerary supported by evocative visual media. The Castle Park consists of a Garden that boasts the presence of an ancient Cedar of Lebanon and three extraordinary and very old specimens of Sophora Japonica, and an orchard of ancient cultivars entrusted since 2017 to the care of the Comizio Agrario di Mondovì, which has turned it into an experimental agrarian platform consisting of the orchard, a corner of medicinal herbs and a vegetable garden.

PLEASE NOTE: the Museum's annual calendar offers some dates with special visits and experiences for which a contribution of € 5.00 is also requested from subscribers.