Ariano Irpino
Ariano Irpino (AV)
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The story
Spread over three hills along the Apennine watershed, Ariano is a land of painted ceramics and a Norman castle keeping watch over the inner Irpinia.
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◆ History & archaeologyAequum Tuticum
Ariano Irpino (AV)
On the plateau of Sant'Eleuterio surface the baths, the tabernae and the paving of an ancient Roman posting station, where the via Traiana crossed the other great roads of the empire.
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Biogem — Museo della vita e della Terra
Ariano Irpino (AV)
A multimedia pyramid and the animated skeletons of Allosaurus and T-Rex lead through the geological eras, where science meets the hills of Ariano.
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Museo della civiltà normanna
Ariano Irpino (AV)
Norman-Swabian coins, the great model of the Battle of Hastings and a reproduction of Roger II's mantle, in the seventeenth-century palazzo of Italy's first Norman county.
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The oldest fishermen's borgo (old village) on Procida, an amphitheatre of pastel houses tumbling down to the harbour, where the boats sleep beneath the hanging laundry.
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Beneath the Aragonese arch of Porta Nolana the fish market erupts with voices, crates of seawater and shellfish still alive: Naples at its most unvarnished.
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Below the town's cliffs, the old fishermen's borgo (old village) with houses faded by the salt, boats hauled ashore and trattorias fragrant with frying.