Arteperarte presents a well structured program. It primarily shows works of art permanently and suitably placed on some houses’ sides, but it also presents a biannual animation Openair. Sculptural elements are spaced out with definitive interventions on the territory and the animation is embellished by a path of artworks scattered through the city. Beside the focal point, Giubiasco, the project also includes interventions and events in the neighboring communities of Monte Carasso and Pianezzo. The expositive path that involves the three places was designed to create a kind of dialogue between the beauty and the particularity of the surrounding environment. The contemporary artwork presented to the public are visible along with the architectural and urban plot arrived on the territory during the previous centuries. This allows the public to witness an exciting comparison between the landscape art of yesterday’s and today’s.

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• Giubiasco

Giubiasco is a city of great historic tradition and a junction of important roads. 

Since the Roman times, it has become one of the biggest crossroads where travellers would join specifically on the North-South axis.

Giubiasco’s history, its landmarks and legacy, the epochal intervention widening the Piazza Grande, the solemnity of the Madonna Assunta church, and the municipality’s awareness, are surely the roots, and the motivating forces that legitimized the ArteperArte  project.

Going through the Borghetto, wandering through the alleys, and lingering on the outlines of Piazza Grande, it basically means returning to the people the ideal territory to reconsider history.

• Monte Carasso

Looking at the right shore of the Ticino River and just a few minutes away from Giubiasco lays Monte Carasso. 

There you will find the Antico Monastero delle Agostiniane, founded in 1450, a small jewel of the rural renaissance architecture.

Right away you can feel something special in the air. For the last 20 years, the valuable and decisive contribution by the architect Luigi Snozzi has gone hand in hand with development, planning, and an increase of a qualitative use of the landscape.

The more attentive and inquisitive visitors certainly can’t miss the Sotterranei dell’Arte, right in the ancient monastery, a valuable site of cultural reference not indifferent, and precious safe keeping of work of more than 70 different artists. 

Looking towards the highway and wandering through some alleys to the east, you immediately found yourself among the present-day, motorized travelers. In the very busy rest area of Bellinzona Sud, which includes the restaurant Marche’ and the Moewenpick Benjaminn hotel, artwork belonging to the project Arteperarte is also on display

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• Pianezzo

Leaving Giubiasco with the state road behind you, climbing up the steep hill towards Loro, you get to Pianezzo. 

Laying at the beginning of the Valle Morobbia it was already settled in a stable manner during the prehistoric age. A group of sixty tombs with numerous exhibits dating from the Iron Age have been found in its important necropolis.

After you visit the beautiful Parochial Church from the XVI century, dedicated to Saint James and Saint Philip, it is worthwhile passing through the enchanting town’s alleys, nicely restored to their ancient splendor. During your wandering, you can discover the artistic design of the territory.

If you want to further drift away from the town and its sun-kissed vineyards, we suggest you move up the valley. 

There you will find a breath-taking panoramic view of a majestic alpine landscape, and you will see the rediscovered Via del Ferro (Iron Way).