The printing atelier of the Tallone publishing house is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the world.

In continuous operation for three centuries, it has seen eleven generations of publishers succeed one another at its helm. In 1938, Alberto Tallone bought the workshop from his master Maurice Darantière, who had printed the first edition of James Joyce's Ulysses in 1922, among many other famous works.

With a catalogue projected as much into the past as into the future, the publishing house publishes fundamental works of prose and poetry as well as a selected choice of contemporary authors, combining high typography with rigorous philological care.

Tour

The tour includes:

the eighteenth-century printing workshop, one of the oldest in the world in operation, first in Dijon, then in Paris and, since 1960, in Alpignano;
the 20th-century literary archive, where the autograph letters of heads of state and great 20th-century literary and artistic personalities are preserved;
the park with its paper mill, century-old trees and steam locomotives, including the oldest locomotive in Italy preserved today.
the Archives of Styles® (www.archiveofstyles.com), one of the world's most comprehensive collections of movable type and hand-embossed punches.