Biogem — Museo della vita e della Terra
Ariano Irpino (AV)
Hidden gemHistory & archaeology
The story
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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History & archaeologyAriano Irpino
Ariano Irpino (AV)
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.
History & archaeologyMuseo 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.
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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History & archaeologyStatua del Nilo ("Corpo di Napoli")
Largo Corpo di Napoli
A river god reclining for centuries in a quiet square, whom Neapolitans call the Corpo di Napoli: he leans his bearded head among putti and a sphinx.
History & archaeologyCappella Pontano
Decumani
A small Renaissance temple on the decumanus, which the humanist Pontano had raised for his lost wife, still lined inside with Latin inscriptions dictated by his grief.
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Sedile di Nilo
Decumani
On the corner of a small Spaccanapoli square survives the seat of the old Nilo quarter, where the nobles once gathered before the sedili of Naples vanished.
History & archaeologyPort'Alba
Napoli
A seventeenth-century arch cut into the walls leads to the booksellers' street, where stalls of second-hand volumes pile up among yellowed pages and the shade of the old city.
History & archaeologyPorta Capuana
zona Garibaldi
Between two cylindrical towers an arch of white marble opens like a Renaissance triumph, the old city gate facing the road to Capua.
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MANN — Museo Archeologico Nazionale
P.za Museo
One of the world's great archaeological museums: here the Toro Farnese, the mosaics of Pompeii and the Gabinetto Segreto tell the whole ancient Mediterranean in a single visit.