Ricca of Diano d'Alba

San Rocco Cherasca church

This church was mentioned for the first time in 1693, during the pastoral visit of Monsignor Provana.
Subsequently, it was rebuilt at the expense of the inhabitants of the Borgata di Ricca in 1870.
The pictorial decorations of the interior were completed in 1928 and in 1931 it became the new Parish of San Rocco Cherasca.

Museum of Arts and Crafts, Heritage of History and Values ​​of San Rocco Cherasca

The Ricca\San Rocco Cherasca museum is a cultural and social initiative that contributes to the historical testimony of the popular classes, their work and their lives. The daily life of past generations in the Langa can be seen through objects, work tools, photos and documents.

In particular, there are tools for agriculture, for harvesting, tools for the carpenter, for the blacksmith and for the shoemaker. Furthermore, there are games, traps, measuring systems, clothes and sacred objects.

San Rocco Cherasca mill

He was born in 1900 to the natives of Borgomale.
The wheel took water from the Cherasca river, which came from a closed deposit and reached the wheel.
The stones, which were used to grind wheat and corn, were called "palmenti".
In the 1950s, to grind grain, they began to install cylinders.
The system and equipment, no longer competitive, ceased to function and the mill was closed in 1993.

Don Mario Destefanis cultural center                   

In 2009 the "Volunteers Centro Don Mario Destefanis" Association opened a cultural center that offers the population a meeting and aggregation place in which to spend their free time, in his memory and according to his educational principles.