At 9.00 p.m., at the headquarters and visitor center of the Val Troncea Natural Park, screening of the docufilm “The Beth mines, in the footsteps of Pietro Giani”, with the park ranger Domenico Rosselli.
The documentary is produced by Graziella and Fabio Solimini Giani, written with Domenico Rosselli, with original music by Alessandro Russo and narrated by Roberto Pedicini: born from the careful rereading of the memoirs that Cav. Pietro Giani (1806-1875) wrote in 1868 in Lugano, donated in original by the heirs to the State Archives of Turin, deals with the activity of the family operating in Turin and in the Chisone and Germanasca Valleys, since the seventeenth century, where the stone and marble quarries were located.
The work is dedicated to the memory of what was the exploitation of the Beth branch mines in Val Troncea, reconstructed thanks to numerous documents collected in the valley and the testimonies of people who have memories of those events. In particular, the Great Avalanche of 1904 is remembered, as a perennial reminder of many tragically cut short lives to which the authors have dedicated precious and engaging images.
The documentary, directed by Fabio Solimini Giani, Pietro’s nephew in the third degree, makes use of the precious contribution of numerous experts who have enthusiastically one of the forerunners of Piedmontese mining entrepreneurship.
Free admission subject to availability
