Exhibition on the Locarno Treaties

Organizer: City of Locarno Cultural Services

Locarno. Visconteo Castle.

Opening hours:

Tuesday-Sunday and Holidays: from 10 am to 4:30 pm.
Mondays: closed.

For more information, see the museum's website.

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The exhibition traces the highlights of the early postwar period up to the signing of the Locarno Treaties, illustrating the historical context, causes and consequences of the agreement. The exhibition panels, enhanced by maps, highlight the strategic importance of the borders involved in the negotiations and present the political positions of the signatory countries, along with a summary of the treaties.

An in-depth study is devoted to the Esprit de Locarno, with its early hopes and their gradual decline. A section with historical caricatures visually restores the political and social climate of the time.

The itinerary concludes with a large-scale reproduction of the Conference Hall at Palazzo del Pretorio, silhouettes of protagonists Briand, Chamberlain, and Stresemann, and a reconstruction of a newsstand, symbolic of media coverage of the event. Closing the exhibition is a reminder of Percorso della Pace (Path of Peace), an itinerary through the city that celebrates the memory of the Treaties by revisiting its symbolic sites and their historical value.