Museo Archeologico dell'Antica Allifae
Alife (CE)
Hidden gemMuseums
The story
From prehistory to Rome, the objects of the Matese peoples: a fourth-style fresco and black-and-white geometric mosaics torn from the domus of ancient Allifae.
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◆ History & archaeologyAlife (mura romane e criptoportico)
Alife
A perfect rectangle of Roman walls with evenly spaced towers and, underground, the U-shaped Augustan cryptoporticus: vaulted galleries guarding a mystery never solved.
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Allifae romana
Alife (CE)
At Alife the Roman walls still gird the town almost intact: two kilometres of ramparts, corner towers and the grid of cardo and decumano still lying beneath today's streets.
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