Third mural dedicated to Carlo Bertero in Santa Vittoria d'Alba
Date of the event:
On 30 October 2026, the third mural in a series dedicated to Carlo Bertero — a botanist, physician and explorer born in the town, who lived at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — is completed in Santa Vittoria d'Alba. The work, painted on a wall in the upper part of the village, on via Cagna, measures 500 by 300 centimetres [1].
The project
The series of murals dedicated to Bertero stems from an idea by Agostino Angeli, a retiree from Santa Vittoria d'Alba, who paints the works together with his friend and fellow townsman Fiorenzo Badellino, also a retiree [1].
The mural
The mural portrays Bertero in close-up, his gaze turned westward, beyond the snow-capped outline of Monviso and the Alpine peaks that mark the horizon of his home region. The composition evokes the explorer's journey, which took him from his Piedmontese valley, in the early decades of the nineteenth century, to the Antilles, Chile and the islands of the Pacific on botanical study missions [1].
Sources
- IdeaWebTv — 2 November 2026