Italy also had its gold rush, in the period from 1848 to 1915, in Piemonte, near Biella, where today there is the gold Museum and Bessa, and Bessa is the location where they extracted the greater amount of gold in Italy.
In reality, the gold search was born a few centuries before Christ in Italy, especially in the North, where the Romans had discovered a mine, continuing even during the middle ages and the Renaissance, and have the testimony of diplomas of various emperors who granted exploitation of rivers to local nobles and bishops.
This gold search continued uninterruptedly until after the second World War when the activity started to disappear because it was now more useful and not produced great rewards.
To keep alive the memory of this tradition since 1985, a group of enthusiasts began to collect tools, testimonies and techniques, and founded the Association Biellese Gold diggers.
