Nuto’s house

Pinolo Scaglione, a carpenter and a musician from Santo Stefano Belbo, was a great friend of Cesare Pavese. He was the one who led the writer along the paths and the vineyards of the Belbo Valley, telling him the stories of its people. Pavese drew fully from his tales, reinventing and changing them into the novel The Moon And The Bonfires, where Pinolo became the character of Nuto. 

His workshop house is located on the road to Canelli, at the foot of the Salto hill. It was turned into a museum after Nuto’s death and can be visited within our guided tours.