What a long day.
First, with my brother, we boarded a local train to the city of Casale Monferrato, once the second most important city in the region (after Turin), today a small, rich town with lots of great shops and sights.
The reason of our trip – visiting the new Criminological Art exhibition in the town’s fortress. A very suggestive display of real-life horrors (torture machines, mementos from past crimes and much more), set up by a criminologist with whom my brother (an amateur Ripperologist – you can read his work on his blog, Redjack) is starting a collaboration.

After a morning spent among the horrors and a nice tour of the Casale antiques market, we came back home, took two hours off, and then we went to Nizza Monferrato, to attend the inauguration of a new bookshop.
Nice place, nice people, nice refreshments. Continue reading →