The Selle Museum
In the province of Florence, and more precisely in the locality of Marradi, the idea of a “saddle museum” was born. The author of this beautiful initiative is Vincenzo Moffa who in the course of his life has expertly preserved any object related to the world of the horse, creating a curious collection, now present in the permanent museum of the Casetta di Marradi farmhouse, on the Tuscan hills. -emiliane. Discover now all our trips, tours, holidays and horse trekking in Italy. Since 2004, the collection has been hosted during various events related to the world of the horse, giving everyone the opportunity to admire the most significant object capable of telling the “marriage” between man and horse: the saddle. And this is how we discover that each saddle in the collection is different from the other, as different are the purposes that led to dedetermined models and materials. We range through time and space between bardelle and scafarde from buttero, vaquera saddle, Egyptian, Moldavian, gaucho saddle, dromedary saddle, renaissance model, high school, gallop, rider’s saddles and even a rare ceramic saddle! This extraordinary collection includes over 80 pieces …
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A LONG TREKKING … 500 DAYS ON THE SILK ROUTE, FROM MONGOLIA TO THE HEART OF EUROPE The protagonists of this story are a woman and her two Mongolian horses (Keeper and Чигээрээ ). Paola Giacomini, recently returned to Trento after a long horse trekking that took her from the Mongolian steppes to Poland. Check […]