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From the Alps to the Andes. Piedmontese at the edge of the world

10 September 2024

2 minutes

Luca Lenzi Cigliuti, writer, in collaboration with the Badia Piemont association

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From the Alps to the Andes.
Piedmontese at the edge of the world
” Conference by Dr. Eduardo Guasco, Piedmontese from Argentine Patagonia. Friday 27 September 2024 at 20:30 at “La Locanda del Cantone di Mezzo” (former Meeting Center) Via Rivetti, 22 – Muzzano (Biella).

Eduardo Guasco is a poet, writer and important point of reference among the Piedmontese of Argentina of the FAPA (Federation of Piedmontese Associations of Argentina) as well as for direct contacts with Michele Colombino of the Piedmontese in the World Association (in Piedmont), official contact person of the Piedmont Region with the descendants of our emigrated compatriots.

Eduardo’s father composed the first tango written in Patagonia, whose original score was donated to the Piedmontese emigration museum in Frossasco, where it is kept.

Eduardo is an agronomist engineer, he created the forest fire service of the Argentine province of Rio Negro and planted thousands of trees to reforest areas of Patagonia devastated by fires.
He was also a councillor in the province of Rio Negro and is the founder of the Andean Piedmont association of El Bolson, an important Patagonian winter sports and mountaineering centre, where he lives.
It was precisely in El Bolson that he had Piazza Piemonte built, with a monument dedicated to Piedmontese immigrants and a bust of Don Bosco who, perhaps not everyone knows, is the patron saint of Patagonia!

A Piedmontese at the edge of the world who has kept alive the bond and love for his family’s homeland, thanks to the stories of his grandfather who as a child told him about Rivarone (AL) and the Tanaro, branding them in his soul as places of myth.

Eduardo will talk to us about the importance of the Piedmontese in the economic fabric of Argentina, how they keep the subalpine language and traditions alive and the deep love they feel for the motherland.
He will also talk to us about life in the wild land of Patagonia, dreamed of by Don Bosco, where the Salesian missionaries, mostly from Piedmont, played a fundamental role in creating a school and education system of the highest level.

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