Visit La Pasta

During this self-guided tour, you’ll discover local customs, eating habits, and the similarities between the two mountain regions. For example, why do Crozet and Piedmontese Tajarin have the same origin and the same ingredients?

Description

During the tour, you will discover :

Exchanges between Piedmontese and Maurienne mountain dwellers,
Victor Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, authorizes drilling of the Mont Cenis tunnel,
Sommeiller develops pneumatic drills,
Agreements between Napoleon III and Victor Emmanuel II,
14 years of work and the discovery of a new geopolitical order,
Italy reunified and France reclaimed the County of Nice and Savoy,
The first waves of Italian immigration,
Italians settle in the Maurienne,
Maurienne rice mills,
Pasta appears in Saint Étienne-de-Cuines, then Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne
The power of water to drive the economy,
Pasta-making techniques: extrusion and lamination,
Bozon Verduraz and vertical extrusion,
Stressed and unstressed pasta,
Neapolitans exalt bronze extruded pasta and dedicate mafaldine to Mafalda of Savoy.

Rates

Free access.

Opening time

From 01/07 to 31/08 from Monday to Saturday between 10 am and 6 pm.
Closed exceptionally on July 14th and August 15th.

From 01/09 to 30/06 on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday between 9 am and 12 pm and between 2 pm and 6 pm.
Closed exceptionally on January 1st, Easter Monday, Feast of the Ascension, Whit Monday, May 1st, May 8th, November 1st, November 11th and December 25th.

Spoken languages

• English
• French
• Italian

Adaptive tourism

• Absence of protrusions > 2 cm