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San Siro

Carcente Rural House Museum

Visit duration
30 min – 1 h
Booking
Not required
Area
Centro Lago
The rural house in winter: a three-storey stone building with wooden balconies and outside stairs, on the right a lower outbuilding with a sign on the door, a builder's mesh and some snow on the grass.Kaitu · CC BY-SA 4.0
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The rural house in winter: a three-storey stone building with wooden balconies and outside stairs, on the right a lower outbuilding with a sign on the door, a builder's mesh and some snow on the grass.

Kaitu · CC BY-SA 4.0

Why go

The Casa rurale di Carcente preserves rooms and objects from farming life in a stone house in the upper hamlets of San Siro.

The cowshed, cellar and ca' del föc, the room for drying chestnuts, show how domestic spaces served livestock keeping and subsistence farming. Furniture, working tools and household utensils accompany the route through the rooms. The collections include equipment for grain, butter and cheese, woodworking and wool spinning. The museum is run by the Amici di Carcente association. The hamlet stands on the slopes of Monte Bregagno above the lake.

  • The life of mountain families above the lake, told in a stone house with its cowshed and cellar.
  • The ca' del föc, where chestnuts were dried, and the tools for butter, cheese and wool.

Highlights

  • The ca' del föc for drying chestnuts
  • The scythes and the tools for grain
  • The utensils for butter, cheese and spinning wool

Getting there

  • Carcente is a mountain hamlet of San Siro: the road to the upper hamlets climbs from Santa Maria, on the Regina road. Visits are arranged with the Amici di Carcente association, which runs the museum.

Accessibility

  • The museum, like the whole village of Carcente, is hard to get into and around for people with reduced mobility or impaired senses.

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