Palazzo Morteo holds a permanent displays of 22 works by the writer-painter from Turin (1902-1975) who chose the town of Alassio as his summer residence.
Fitted with the most sophisticated air-conditioning systems to conserve his work, the Gallery offers its visitors a series of landscape paintings which the artist painted while he was in Liguria. All the paintings on display were painted in Alassio, except for his self-portrait.
There’s one on the Méditerranée seafront, others of the hillside, as well as a famous painting of Italo Calvino, a writer from San Remo who would come to visit his friend every year at his Villa Levi in the hills.
Part of the Carlo Levi Historic Fund as letters, notes, drafts and the famous manuscript “Quaderno a cancelli”, donated by Antonio and Silvia Ricci, will showed in special showcases.
PALAZZO MORTEO
Via Gramsci, 58
free entry
winter time
15/09 – 30/05
Friday - Saturday - Sunday from 15.00 to 18.00
summer time
01/06 – 14/09
Thursday: from 17.30 to 19.30
Friday: from 21.00 to 23.00
Saturday and Sunday:
from 17.00 to 19.30
and from 21.00 to 23.00
Contact
Tel. 0182-470676
only during opening hours
(at other times at 0182-648078)
biblioteca@comune.alassio.sv.it
For appointments and groups:
tel. 0182-648078
Places of Interest
Museums
- Museum of Natural Science c/o Salesian Institute “Madonna degli Angeli”
Winter time:
pre-holiday 17:00 / 19:00;
holiday 9:00 / 12:00
Summer time: (01.07 / 15.09):
tuesday / thursday 21:00 / 23:30; pre-holiday 17:00 / 19:00
Galleries
- Richard West Gallery
at Biblioteca Viale Hanbury - Levi Gallery
at Palazzo Morteo
Libraries
- Public Library "R. Deaglio"
Piazza Airaldi e Durante - English Library
at Biblioteca Viale Hanbury - Library fraz. Moglio
Via Mazzini 12 - Moglio d'Alassio
Archeological sites
- Along the Roman road connecting Alassio to Albenga, we can admire many remains dating from the Roman times as well as an early building of the 9th century, the Church of Sant’Anna ai Monti, finely restored in the 60’s.
Churches
Architectural and Monumental sites
- Tower of Vegliasco
- Remains of the Santa Croce Tower
- Medieval remains near the Sanctuary od the Madonna della Guardia
- Sant’Ambrogio Parish Church
- Madonna del Vento Chapel (16th century façade)
- Saracen Tower (1576)
- English Library (built at the beginning of the 20th century).
Historical characters
- Father Francesco Maria Giancardi: first historian from Alassio. He is the author of (Imprese d’Alassio” in 1653 and he is the historian of most sanctuaries of Liguria. He died in 1970.
- Gerolamo Gastaldi: Secretary of the Republic of Genoa, plenipotentiary Minister, he became famous for his political testament (18th century).
- Luigi Jacopo Grassi: archeologist and historian, he illustrated the bronze tables of the Polcevera (19th century).
- Sergio Quinzio: philosopher, writer, Bible expert; he died on March 22nd, 1995.