Chrizia Rental Rooms is just a 10-minute drive from the first regional beekeeping museum called Il Maglietto, which is located in the hamlet of Merella di Novi Ligure (AL) in the green banks of the Scrivia River; Until the 1950s, Il Maglietto was home to an old mallet and only on April 20, 2016, was transformed into a museum and set up, thanks to a donation of equipment and objects by local beekeepers Amelia and Giacomo Bisio from the Municipality of Novi Ligure.This is a unique collection that includes beehives bugni villici, feeders, honey extractors, presses, wax sculptures, beekeeping magazines, stamps dedicated to bees and numerous thematic objects collected over the years by the Bisio family in Italy and abroad and made available to the community today by their daughters Gilda and Angela Bisio.
Regulations concerning beekeeping, swarm ownership, honey trade, and fines for theft of hives or bee products are contained in documents from the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries found in Villafalletto, Busca, and Murazzano in the province of Cuneo, Lessolo and Strambino in the province of Turin, Gavi, Pareto, and Casale in the province of Alessandria, and Vogogna in the province of Novara. These records, although very scarce, are sufficient to document that beekeeping was widespread throughout Piedmont at the end of the Middle Ages.
The area of Novi Ligure and in particular the province of Alessandria has a particular vocation for the production of high quality honey in the varieties: milefiori, acacia and chestnut, and some local producers have been awarded in several editions among the best producers in Piedmont at the "Franco Marletto" competition, now in its 24th edition, a competition reserved for typical Piedmontese honeys that this year saw the participation of no less than 376 products.
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source: fonte: https://maglietto-noviligure.it/il-museo-dellapicoltura/
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