Museo della civiltà normanna
Ariano Irpino (AV)
Hidden gemMuseums
The story
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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VillagesAriano 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 & 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.
More gems: Museums
MuseumsMANN — 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.
◆ MuseumsAntiquarium
Boscoreale
The museum that tells of daily life at the foot of Vesuvius before the eruption, among carbonised loaves, farm tools and finds handed back by the ash.
◆ MuseumsMuseo dell'Osservatorio Vesuviano
Ercolano
The oldest volcanological observatory in the world, willed by the Bourbons in 1841, with historic instruments and mineral collections, looking out over the slopes of Vesuvius.
◆ MuseumsMuseo Correale
Sorrento
In the family villa of the Correale counts: porcelain, inlaid wood and eighteenth-century views of Naples, and a garden that runs down to a belvedere over the sea.
MuseumsVilla Lysis — Jago Museum Capri
Capri
A 1905 Art Nouveau villa by the poet Fersen, dedicated to love and sorrow; since June 2026 it houses the Jago Museum Capri, with Jago's sculptures in the historic rooms high above the sea.
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Ospedale delle Bambole
Napoli
Behind a shop window in Palazzo Marigliano a craftsman mends glass eyes, porcelain arms and dolls' curls, in a workshop born more than a century ago.