Esseci (former Palazzo Santa Croce)

THERE ARE

The ESSECI cultural center is not only the new home of the Civic Library, the oldest in Piedmont with over 350,000 volumes, and the 0-18 Library, entirely dedicated to children, teens, and young adults, but also a public space open to the city, capable of welcoming different generations and fostering the creation of new communities. The restoration project has restored Palazzo Santa Croce, in the heart of the city's historic center, to its role as a living urban organism: not just a container, but a historic building once again a protagonist of Cuneo's present and future. Built in the 18th century as a city hospital, Palazzo Santa Croce has been a place dedicated to care for generations. Today, that vocation is renewed through knowledge, memory, relationships, and participation, transforming it into a cultural center serving the community.

Address: Via Santa Maria 11.

Events

From September 26, 2026 to November 15, 2026

Anatomy of a Look: Inside the Hospital's Soul

Esseci (former Palazzo Santa Croce) You discover

PAST EVENTS ARCHIVE

"Can I play too? The wonders of growing and learning."

Free

Esseci (former Palazzo Santa Croce)

THERE ARE

Events

Anatomy of a Look: Inside the Hospital's Soul

PAST EVENTS ARCHIVE

"Can I play too? The wonders of growing and learning."

Arrow. Excerpt from Zodiacos

Presentation of Giuseppe Mazzini's manuscript

Naming of the local fund after Piero Camilla

The Ridarelli treatment (from 5 years)

Balabeats • Kanazoé Orkestra

Anatomy of a Look: Inside the Hospital's Soul

LiberAzione – FREEDOM CAN BE FELT!

To poetically inhabit the world. An energetic awakening workshop

LIBRARY TYPES

MUSICAL INTERVENTION

ESSECI • Guided tour

ESSECI • Guided tour

Bad Teacher • Meeting with Piergiorgio Odifreddi

Stories, rhymes and whispered sounds • Reading workshop (2-3 years)

Stories, rhymes and whispered sounds • Reading workshop (2-3 years)

The culture that changes the territories

LIBRARY TYPES

ESSECI • Guided tour

Library Crime • Murder Mystery Dinner in the Library (ages 11-15)

The Girls of Tunis • Meeting with Luca Bianchini

Pages and Sounds from the Land of Books (for ages 4 and up)

Bibliotherapy workshop

Moving at sunset, reading the city

From Care to Connection • The Public Library as a Place of Community, Encounter and Shared Knowledge

Bibliotherapy workshop

The Congregation of the 13 • Meeting with Cesare Damiano

LIBRARY TYPES

MUSICAL INTERVENTION

ESSECI • Guided tour

ESSECI • Guided tour

I am Nobody • Meeting with Andrea Maggi

20 Years of Goals! • Meeting with Luigi Garlando (ages 7 and up)

Biblio-stories • Reading workshop (3-6 years)

Biblio-stories • Reading workshop (3-6 years)

Words in the Attic • Book & Breakfast with Stefano Fava

Yang and poetry. T'ai Chi Ch'uan workshop

SARAFINE. DJ set

Libraries Before Alexandria: Public and Private Collections of Manuscripts in Ancient Egypt

Kento & Mad Simon in concert

Readers on the move • One library, many ways to read

Breaking Through with Rhymes • Rap Writing Workshop with Kento

Making a Film • Film Writing Workshop with Manlio Castagna

Breaking Through with Rhymes • Rap Writing Workshop with Kento

Cuneo, Palazzo Santa Croce: a day of meetings on January 29th to imagine new cultural spaces dedicated to young people

EXHIBITION | THE WAR OF THE IDIOTS

Eyes of Peace. A special exhibition featuring music and dance

Exhibition | Tired of War

Exhibition: quadrilogy

INTROITUS – HONOR OF ELSEWHERE – SIGNS, DISCARDED SIMULACRAS

Beauty Revealed, whispers of freedom

Contemporary business card

Correlation