Volcei — parco urbano e museo
Buccino (SA)
Hidden gemHistory & archaeology
The story
Buccino stands on ancient Volcei, a Lucanian and then Roman town: among its alleys surface necropolises, mosaics and walls, gathered in the museum that tells its many pasts.
Access
Museum Tue-Sun, ticket
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History & archaeologyMuseo Archeologico Nazionale di Volcei
Buccino (SA)
In the ancient Augustinian convent of Buccino, the finds of ancient Volcei tell millennia of history, from the gold of a priestess to the mosaics resurfaced beneath the borgo.
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Antica città di Volcei
Buccino (SA)
At Buccino, risen on ancient Volcei, one of the twelve Lucanian towns, the urban park weaves walls, forum and Roman mosaics into the alleys of the borgo that kept them safe.
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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.