Museo del Santuario di Re

About the museum

The museum is located in a room on the upper floor of the 20th-century Basilica of the Madonna del Sangue in Re, a devotional centre for the whole Valle Vigezzo, linked to the miracle of 29 April 1494. In the past the ex-votos completely covered the walls of the ancient sanctuary: an inventory from 1617 already counted 58 medium-sized votive panels, and their number grew over the centuries.

Today the collection includes 465 ex-voto panels, to which hearts, embroideries and photographs are added. Some works are by well-known popular painters specialised in this genre; all have strong historical and emotional value, because the scenes depicted make it possible to reconstruct details of life at the time.

Among the memorials of devotion to the Madonna di Re is also preserved the golden heart offered in 1897 by the mothers of Re and Folsogno after the end of a diphtheria epidemic, which children still carry in procession on the second Sunday of October.

Highlights

• 465 ex-voto panels
• Votive hearts, embroidery and photographs
• Works by specialised popular painters
• Link to the golden heart carried in procession by children

Permanent exhibition

• Collezione di ex voto del Santuario – 465 ex-voto panels, hearts, embroidery and photographs from the ancient sanctuary of Re.

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Santuario della Madonna del Sangue

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