The Spinola Banna Foundation for Art was established in 2004 in the Tenuta di Banna, a hamlet of Poirino 30 km from Turin, with the aim of contributing to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary art and music through an articulated program of workshops and residences dedicated to young people entering the artistic profession. An imposing complex of closed courtyard rural buildings is part of the Tenuta di Banna, one of the largest and most interesting in Piedmont. The complex is dominated by a massive tower modernized on the foundations of an ancient house-fort, the most remote attestation of which dates back to the second half of the thirteenth century. Possession of the canons of Asti, then a fief of the Roero, Asinari di Virle and Caraglio families, it was erected into a principality in 1785 by Vittorio Amedeo III of Savoy in favor of his son Vittorio Emanuele, Duke of Aosta. Later the estate had various owners, up to the Spinola family in the first half of the twentieth century. The complex still includes other medieval and late eighteenth-century buildings which are still partly used for the farm's activities. The company has a large area cultivated with soft wheat, corn and soy, classic crops for these areas and for this type of land. The Banna estate extends over an area not yet compromised from a landscape point of view, representative of the Piedmontese countryside between the Alps, Monferrato, Roero and Langhe.