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Party Palace

The evocative environment of the western Piedmontese Alps, the typical hospitality of the mountain people, a spirit strongly rooted in the centuries-old traditions of these valleys, these are the set of values ??that play the role of tourist Bardonecchia.

This is the Bardonecchia of the Congress Center, which aims to attract the attention of the national conference sector by offering an optimal environment to meet the needs of operators.

The Palazzo delle Feste - Conference Center of Bardonecchia is located in an Art Nouveau building dating back to the beginning of this century, completely renovated.

The two superimposed rooms, called "Giolitti" and "Viglione" can be used both connected and independent, offering a total capacity of seven hundred seats.

The building was built in the 10s on a project by the architect Carlo Angelo Ceresa in the area where the Saint Sepulcre Chapel once stood. This area had been completely submerged (and with it the aforementioned religious building) by the alluvial sediments of the Rho stream (floods of 1872 and 1873).

The construction of the "Kursaal" then called "Gran Salone Divertimenti in Bardonecchia" was commissioned by the Bardonecchia Real Estate Company, active at the beginning of the century with a series of real estate initiatives (construction of some "villas" in Viale Capuccio) and aimed at construction of public works (roads, embankment of the Rho river, aqueduct).

The times of the First World War the building is not yet completely completed and is used to house Austro-Hungarian officers and prisoners of war.

After a period of non-use, the structure was subsequently used as an alpine headquarters for the after-work of the Fiat company (which in the meantime became the owner).

In 1935, the Fiat company donated the property in poor condition to the Municipality of Bardonecchia: in part the building was burnt and in part still to be completed.

In the same year the Municipality of Bardonecchia entrusted the renovation and completion works to the Visetti company, which quickly completed them. On 3 August 1935 with "The Barber of Seville" the season of shows was inaugurated and the building finally took the name of "Palazzo delle Feste".

The management of the structure (theater, café and bar) and the programming of the shows (concerts, theatrical and cinematographic) is entrusted to Mr. Umberto.Fiandra (theatrical impresario, in the following years Director of the Carignano, Alfieri and Romano theaters in Turin) with an intelligent and articulated agreement that guarantees the quality of the shows and entertainment and the maintenance of the building. After five years of activity, the relationship with Mr. Flandra was interrupted in 1939: we are at the gates of the Second World War.

Since the postwar period and throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s, the Palazzo delle Feste has undergone a slow decline and decay; it has been used for countless and different functions: ballroom, bar and cinema, youth hostel (first hostel in Italy of the A.I.G.), cinema, gym, and then storage and warehouse.

Then finally from 1981 the first restoration interventions supported with regional funding, very expensive works, suspended several times in relation to the financial resources of the Municipality; and finally the possibilities offered by the financing of the European Union which made it possible to reactivate the exceptional structure, inaugurated in 1997.

Map: Party Palace