The Fort of Exilles houses two permanent museum areas and offers two guided visitor routes enriched by theatrical sets of great evocative impact conceived by the artist Richi Ferrero.
Stone soldiers immersed in huge glass aquariums and delicate watercolours appear together, parallel paths of
a single story, our history. Images and sounds, and great sculptural groups offer an unexpected route through the history and memory of the mountain soldier...
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Six models, six grey bodies the colour of the rock that gave the fort its shape over centuries: Exilles, a building and its transformations, a war machine that grows powerful and threatening over the centuries. Maps, sketches, drawings, plans and sections: a route for interpreting a centuries-old story...
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High hills of earth and recollections of the past, memories
of those who lived among these walls. On the enormous columns, the images of a couple: an Alpine soldier and
a young woman dance; the serious thoughtful face of the captain remains an immobile witness at the centre. So that is the other face of the Fort: up here you sometimes...
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From the Stables steep stairs lead to the Lower Fort, from there to the Great Ditch over which the Royal Battery looms, up the so-called 'Paradise' steps, hewn from the rock, and into the Prison Courtyard. A circular route within the stronghold reveals the various building levels...
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