Livorno Ferraris
A small and charming agricultural town, Livorno Ferraris is known for being the birthplace of Galileo Ferraris, an illustrious 19th century physicist and engineer, inventor of the rotating magnetic field and of the first electric motor.
THE TOWN OF LIVORNO FERRARIS
In the charming historical town centre, which counts more than nineteen churches, we suggest a visit to the majestic parish church of St. Lawrence. It has an impressive 18th century organ, and the Ferraris Civic Museum dedicated to the scientist and his brother Adamo, Garibaldi’s personal physician.
Near the village, in addition to the very old church of St. Mary of Ysana, the only Templar church in the Vercelli area, is the Depretis Canal, an ancient 18th century canal that was among the first to allow irrigation of the rice fields in the central Vercelli area, which naturally lacked major waterways.
Rice-growing Conservatory
In the midst of the Vercelli rice fields and a short distance from Livorno Ferraris is the charming Colombara Estate, which houses the Rice-growing Conservatory. The estate represents a splendid example of a closed court farmhouse and houses, in addition to agricultural facilities and a modern rice mill, some faithful reproductions of a mid-twentieth-century rice mill. Within these spaces, part of the Conservatory of Rice Growing and open to visitors by reservation, the most representative environments of the history and life of the rice-growing world have been reconstructed, such as the artisan workshops, dwellings, the school and the evocative dormitory of the rice-workers.
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