CASA VICINA LEAVES TURIN FOR IVREA

After more than twenty years in Turin, the Casa Vicina restaurant waved goodbye to the city with its last Christmas lunch in 2025. This farewell to Turin precedes a new beginning in the Canavese area, at the 3T Boutique Hotel in Ivrea, where the offering will become more agile and closer to the idea of hospitality, not least because the Via Francigena passes right in front of it.

From Crocetta to Eataly Lingotto, to Green Pea, a chapter rich in history comes to a close. Ivrea is not just a destination, but a point of origin. Here, in 1902, Pietro Vicina Mazzaretto opened an inn on the Via Francigena, starting a story that now spans five generations. Casa Vicina is not closing: it is moving and returning to breathe in the place where it all began.

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At the helm is an entire family: chef Claudio Vicina with Anna Mastroianni, maître Stefano Vicina, and the new generation. A close-knit group that carries on a cuisine capable of holding together memory and the present, without nostalgia.

Probably some of my thirty works, which have been on display in the restaurant for years, will also follow this move. A silent dialogue with the Vicina family that has lasted for almost twenty years, and for which I am deeply grateful to Stefano and his entire family. Thus, without any effort, my works dedicated to the Via Francigena return to the road, as if they had always known where to go.