Museo Etnografico "Rinaldo Firighelli"

The Museum is located in the town center in a four-storey house, the donation of the family Rinaldo Firighelli (Nino) and collects the most 'authentic peasant and artisan testimonies of the place.

On the ground floor there are three rooms used as cellar, elegant living room and Butea carpenter. In the basement, an old wooden press dated 1837 is proudly displayed to testify if the art of good wine of the place. The parlor of Collections, entirely provided by Nanda De Marchi, including monuments of a time gone by. Woodworking, arranged exactly as it was one hundred years ago, containing treasures and tools that allow us to understand how much effort and skill was in the Master Petro '(Peter Tirso hands), from the bench, the various systems to cut trees and realize a work tables, up to gouges and what was needed to achieve real masterpieces.

On the first floor welcomes us the Peasant room with an old cart pulled by hand, some wooden plows and iron. A second room, devoted to crafts, contains tools to cultivate the land, mow the grass, toasting the coffee ', manufacture footwear. The third room is two schools, that of sewn with sewing machines of old times, scissors, irons, the machine for carding wool and to make the coils, and the elementary school with the dealer, the calculator (an abacus) , a globe and three original transcripts of the time of the beam and the Savoy.

On the second floor and 'was made the kitchen and follow the signs found in older homes in the country, with the circular fire in the middle of the room, topped by the classic Canizzu (dryer for chestnuts), the cupboard and other evidence found or offered by the population. The next room contains the bedroom, with the cradle, an iron bed, a wardrobe and clothes of the time.

The museum and 'completed the top floor with a tribute to bagiue Andagna, that in 1587, at the hands of the Civil Commissioner Giulio de Scribani, were imprisoned, tortured, interrogated and prosecuted. One of these processes was borne by four women Andagna, these Catherine, wife of Marco Capponi-Bosio, and sisters: Antonina, Bianchina and Battistina, daughters of the late-Scarella Vivaldi. They, according to the indictment, they "failed (caused diseases) in Alassio two sons"; Battistina, made "a lot of rascality with ammazzamento a cow ... and the storm brought down the day of Pentecost; dell'Antonina crimes has spoiled them a boy of three years, killed two men, one with a toxic compound brain cat, the other with a diabolical ointment that gave the devil. " On August 30 of 1588, Giulio de Scribani sent to Genoa sentence against "the evil convinced of Andagna". In October of 1588 the four Andagnine were conducted in Genoa for a retrial, which was held the following year. Poor women never heard 'anything, but never returned to their country.