LabOrantes Museum

The LabOrantes Museum offers a broad overview of the daily and religious life of the people living in the Bolognese Appenines between the 1800s and 1900s.

Its location in the Manservisi Castle complex in Castelluccio - Alto Reno Terme and its management by the Pro Loco "Il faggio" add a touch of authenticity and community involvement; in fact, debates, exhibitions and events are periodically organized in the large hall on the second floor.

The origin of the name LabOrantes, derived from the Latin composition of "labor" (work) and those who pray in Latin "orantes," adds a touch of meaning to the museum's mission in documenting the life and work of the mountain community. The museum's itinerary is essentially centered on two themes aimed at documenting by signs and meanings the life of the local community; the first concerns furnishings and sacred art, with numerous testimonies of popular devotion such as votive tablets; while the second is a kind of reconstruction of the environments of domestic life and mountain work, with objects and tools that became the reason for survival for the women and men belonged them. Numerous testimonies of folk devotion are preserved there.

One room is entirely devoted to votive tablets, painted or manufactured through a variety of craft and artistic techniques and coming from the Sanctuary of the Beata Vergine del Faggio and the Sanctuary of the Madonna del Ponte in Porretta Terme.