La Sia - the sawmill

The Sia of Penia is the last Venetian-type hydraulic sawmill in existence in the Fassa Valley. It has been documented since the 16th century and is currently located inside the building constructed in 1922 by the carpenter Giochelon di Predazzo.

The restoration work, conducted between 1985 and 1988 by Giuseppe Longo from Tesero, led to the complete operational recovery of the building: today, as well as allowing guided tours to the mechanisms functioning for demonstration purposes, the sawmill can still be used to satisfy the needs of the people of the district of Penia.

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L Molin - the mill

L molin de Pèzol has belonged to the Rizzi (Salin) family from Pera since 1800 and is a milling complex that still functions today, consisting of two cereal millstones and a husking machine for barley (pestin), driven by three large hydraulic paddle wheels.

The mortars (a primitive vertically moving barley husking system), the winnow and the remaining miller's equipment are also located here. The molin de Pèzol was renovated by the artisan Giuseppe Longo from Tesero and inaugurated in 1983.

It was the first local branch of the Ladin Museum. 

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L Malghier - the dairy

Located at the headquarters of the Caseificio Sociale Val di Fassa (Fassa Valley Social Cheese Factory) the new branch is dedicated to the age-old art of breeding and cheese-making, an activity that has characterized the economic system of the Fassa Community for centuries.

The processing of milk, butter and cheese and the community management of grazing lands and Alpine pastures over the centuries can be recalled thanks to objects, texts and photographs resulting from thirty years of ethnographic collection work carried out by the Ladin Cultural Institute, leading us to modernity and to the present-day production at the Cheese Factory, all of which can be viewed in the large production halls.

You will have the opportunity to taste the numerous products available at the shop.

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L Segat - Silviculture

The new “L Segat” local Branch was designed as a museum facility with a marked educational vocation, complementary to the “La Sia” Branch in Penia. Mainly dedicated to the comparison between traditional water-driven sawmills and the modern timber-working techniques, the space also provides you an overview of all the productive sectors linked to silviculture.

Beginning with the importance of exploitation of the forest for the Fassa Community over the centuries, you can get to know the main types of local wood and also become acquainted with three of the professions linked to the primary processing of timber: the lumberjack, the sawyer and the carpenter.

Each of the various sectors is illustrated in the texts, historical images, ethnographic objects and films collected over the years by the Ladin Cultural Institute, among which there is the impressive “Bepo e Jan Cherlo” collection in Moena, which comes from a family of carpenters for four generations.

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1914-1918 "la gran vera" 
THE GREAT WAR: GALICIA, DOLOMITES

For the Centennial of the First World War, the Municipality of Moena, the Ladin Cultural Institute and the “Sul Fronte dei Ricordi” Cultural Association, with the sponsorship of the Comun General de Fascia, have organized a themed exhibition regarding the “Great War", to illustrate the events that took place during the war, from the Austrian-Russian front (Galicia-Bukovina-Volhynia) to the war high up in the mountains, in the Fassa and Fiemme Dolomites, to commemorate not only the historical events but also their impact on the local populations.The subject of the exhibition is primarily the “Simonetti - Caimi” collection, with over 20 period uniforms, relics, artefacts, photographic albums, etc., making a total of almost one thousand pieces, made available by the Ladin de Fascia Museum and enriched by other artefacts from private collections.

The exhibition is organised into four permanent sections (Galicia 1914, The Trenches, Dolomites 1915 and War on War!), located in the large spaces of the Navalge Theatre in Moena, where you will find truly spectacular dioramas, themed showcases, educational panels, period photos and blow-ups, in an exhibition space of approx. 500 m2. Furthermore, every year, the exhibition hosts a temporary section dedicated to gaining a deeper knowledge of a specific subject: “Art and Standschützen, 1916: Italians Charge!” and for summer 2017 Richard Lowy, a Jew in Moena.

The inventors and organizers of the exhibition are Michele Simonetti Federspiel and Mauro Caimi, both honorary curators of the Ladin Museum, while the set-ups were created thanks to the indispensable operational support of the volunteers from the “Sul Fronte dei Ricordi" Association, which also organizes accompanied itineraries to the locations on the front in the Costabella, Pellegrino and Bocche area.

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L Stònt - The Marksmen’s Lodge

In all the major villages and in every town in the old Tyrol, there was once a place where men, who were skilled in the use of firearms, practiced shooting: a wooden or brick structure equipped with a wide opening from which it was possible to see the targets, placed at various distances.

The spirit of the ancient voluntary militias appointed to defend the Tyrolean homeland, legitimated by the Emperor in 1511, was transferred to the Standschützen (rifle guilds) free associations, called Scìzeres in Ladin and “Bersaglieri immatricolati” in Italian.

The imperial-royal municipal markmen’s lodge is the unique evidence of centuries history in the valley that still remains today: established in 1905 remained operational until the Great War broke out.

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