Poggiolforato Museum

The ethnographic museum “G. Carpani” of Poggiolforato, established in 1976, is the result of the former mayor Giovanni Carpani’s passion for local culture and history, who managed to gather a considerable collection of items from spontaneous donations made by artisans and citizens of Lizzano in Belvedere. The exhibition is arranged in five distinct sections: castagno (chestnut production), artigianato(handicraft), pastorizia (pastoralism), religiosità(religiousness) and tessitura(weaving), all of them portraying an important feature of the local farming lifestyle.

The museum has indeed recreated the complete production cycle of a chestnut, an activity of paramount importance, from the chestnut harvest to its final consumption, and displays a remarkable collection of utensils hailing from shoemakers’, stonecutters’ and carpenters’ workshops. 

Another essential activity has always been pastoralism: Shepherds’ tools and utensils for carding and weaving can be observed here, together with the detailed reconstruction of a large loom, still functioning today. Visitors can moreover take the chance to visit the “Catinelle” House Museum, where they can admire a typical farmhouse, reconstructed here with original furnishings from the 19th century and the interwar period.