Parco Naturale del Gran Bosco di Salbertrand

Meeting Proceedings - Salbertrand, Park Offices, 13th December 2008

Technical, linguistic, medicinal, and artistic remarks regarding the issue of distillation.
… An exclusive stage: the cavern of Deveys alembic (country hamlet of Exilles), one of the last ones of Susa Valley which every year in December starts to work again.
…The protagonist Association ArTeMuDa tries to understand the alchemic secret of the transformation of grappa.

Speakers

• Cataloguing an immaterial good: the experience of Deveys alembic
  Dott.ssa Alessia Glielmi, Anthropologist
• Distillers in Susa Valley
  Dott. Candido Oberto
• Medicinal uses of grappa in the popular remedies of Susa Valley
  Dott.ssa Loredana Matonti, Ethnomedicine Researcher
• Linguistic remarks on the grappa vocabulary in Upper Susa Valley
  Dott. Matteo Rivoira, University Torino
• About grappa, patois, and theater
  Renato Sibille, Director of the Theater Research Workshop in Salbertrand