Museum Dynamite Nobel Factory

To the east of the marsh of the Mareschi are the remains of the world’s most important explosives factory from the 1940s. The main reason for this displacement choice was certainly the presence of hill formations that allowed the town to be protected from the effects of the explosions that could be caused by this dangerous activity.
The complex, which represents one of the most interesting examples of industrial architecture of the beginning of the century, was one of the first industrial plants in Avigliana; at that time it was called the "Anonymous Society for the manufacture of dynamite, Nobel patent".
On the initiative of a group of five Parisian bankers and the Alfred Nobel Society of Hamburg, the construction of the factory began and was completed in 1873.
In 1908, the Nobel Company also purchased other land in the Allemandi region from the Cravotto family for the establishment of factories for the production of new types of powder. In 1825 from the small department of the "firstborn" Valloya factory, under a patent of the American Dupont, the Duco paint factory started, a complex that later became part of the Montecatini Group.
During the last world war the area was the scene of bombing and subject to partisan actions.
The subsequent crisis of the military commissions and the varied displacement needs caused the progressive decay of the industrial complex which ceased production in the 1960s.