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The entire property in the succession of Comm. Alfred Nobel was sold, with
notaries act, to Mr Max Philip, Director of the German Society of Dynamite.
Nobel regarded him very highly; in fact he had appointed him as testamentary
executor in his will of 1839, then cancelled.
When Mr Philip died on 26 January 1902, his heirs sold the entire property to Mr
Giobatta Parodi with act dated 30 November 1905 and 4 April 1906 by notary
Roverio. Mr Parodi’s family owned the villa and the surrounding park till 1969
when it was acquired by the Autonomous Agency for Tourism and Holidays of
Sanremo(today Tourism Promotion Agency) that designed it for highly cultured
national and international events of science and tourism, non profit making.
The Province of Imperia became proprietor in 1973, never failed to honour these
commitments, providing Villa Nobel of all necessary equipments to meet the
purposes.
After a few years of closing down because of renovation works made possible
thanks to conspicuous financing of the Foundation of Cassa di Risparmio Genova
and Imperia, the Villa was reopened in 2002. The permanent exhibition that in
the eighties had been arranged by the Nobel Foundation under the supervision of
engineer Strandh, Director of the Museum of Technics in Stockolm, has been
completely reorganized by the society Woodtli of Zurich.
The exhibition “Discover the nineteenth century” offers a general picture of the
most important discoveries of the XIX century that include Nobel’s research
activities such as the telegraph, the telephone, high fidelity, artificial silk
and synthetic materials, working tools and the tunnel of Saint Gothard, dynamite,
the first researches starting from the discovery of nitro glycerine by the
Italian Ascanio Sobrero in 1847, the public awards, a plastic scale model of
Alfred Nobel’s propriety in Sanremo, the booklet “Memories from Avigliana”, the
relics of Nobel prize Giulio Natta, the stamps exhibition dedicated to many
Nobel prizes and to Alfred Nobel himself, a list of all Nobel awards since 1901
and the pictures of the Italian Nobel prizes.
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