Cittadellarte wants to inspire and produce responsible change in society through creative ideas and projects.

Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto is a physical place, an idea, a vision, a project, a community. It is a great challenge to describe such an articulated and complex reality in just a few words.

Already from its name the objective that its founders set themselves is evident: to create a place where artists, scientists, activists, entrepreneurs and representatives of the institutional world could meet, a real house of art, an art seen as a tool for responsible social transformation.

Not only. The name Cittadellarte incorporates two meanings: that of citadel, or an area in which art is protected and well defended, and that of city, which corresponds to the idea of ​​openness and complex interrelationship with the world.

Furthermore, Cittadellarte is a laboratory-school dedicated to the study, experimentation and development of practices that translate the symbol of the Third Paradise into reality, implicating it in every social sphere and in every type of organization, starting from the single individual up to the highest bodies such as the United Nations.

The myth of the Third Paradise itself has its origins right here and in its thinking, planning and manifestation it incites and proposes constant research aimed at creating a trinamic balance between opposites.

Cittadellarte, therefore, is a new model of artistic and cultural institution that places art in direct interaction with the different sectors of society. A place where ideas and projects converge that combine creativity and entrepreneurship, training and production, ecology and architecture, politics and spirituality. A multifaceted and multifaceted organism intended to produce civilization, activating necessary and urgent responsible social change at a local and global level.

VISITS

The spaces of Cittadellarte can only be accessed with a guided tour; visits are scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays in three time slots: at 11am, 2.30pm and 4.30pm (guided tour lasting an hour and a half). The public, regardless of the day of the visit, will necessarily have to book by sending an email to termeculturali@cittadellarte.it specifying the name and surname of the participants, the chosen visit time and leaving a telephone number.

In case of special needs, the telephone numbers 331.6676212 (from Monday to Friday from 11:00 to 17:00) and 015.28400 (Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 19:00) are active. Access is subject to possession of the green pass.

HOME OF THE THIRD PARADISE

The Terzo Paradiso headquarters, in via Cernaia 46 in Biella, is open with free access from Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 20:00.

STORE

From Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 5pm; Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 19:00. You can also find us on our e-commerce.

015.28400 | 015.8971064 – store@cittadellarte.it

Let Eat Bi market: local, seasonal and natural food

Every Wednesday from 10:00 to 13:00 in the Casa di Paglia, in the internal car park of Cittadellarte.

The Cittadellarte café “Al Bistrot Le Arti”, managed by the Ramella family, is open at the following times:

From Monday to Friday from 9.30 to 18.00; Saturday and Sunday from 10.30am to 6pm

Friday and Saturday open for dinner by reservation only from 7.30pm to 10.30pm

Info and reservations: 335.6558557 | 331.1045933

www.famigliaramella.it/bistrot_le_arti

UFFIZI Cittadellarte

From Monday to Friday from 9.30 to 13.00 and from 14.30 to 18.30.

015.28400 | 015.8971064 – amministrazionepistoletto@cittadellarte.it

WHERE IS CITTADELLARTE

Cittadellarte is located inside the premises of a disused factory, the former Lanificio Trombetta, an industrial archeology complex in the historic textile center of Biella.

Biella is a city of almost 50,000 inhabitants, 30 km from Ivrea, 75 km from Turin, 85 km from Aosta, 100 km from Milan, 160 km from Genoa.

Biella is known for its textile industry, natural beauty (it is located at the foot of the Alps), rice fields, plant and flower nurseries, sources of natural mineral water, and religious pilgrimage destinations.

Cittadellarte – Pistoletto Foundation

via Serralunga, 27 – 13900 – Biella – Italy

tel +39 015 28400 – fax +39 015 2522540 | e-mail:fondazionepistoletto@cittadellarte.it

VAT number: 01945080024

Transport

By train: Cittadellarte is located approximately 2 km from Biella San Paolo station. The station is regularly reached by direct trains coming from Santhià and Novara.

By bus: Cittadellarte is connected to the rest of the city of Biella and the surrounding towns with frequent urban and extra-urban lines.