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| This museum, based on a didactic purpose, illustrates the historical development of the area, from the Prehistoric Age to the Renaissance. It preserves finds which date back to the Palaeolithic Art, a collection of Etruscan sculptures in pink "nenfro" (a kind of tufa) representing imaginary animals along with cob and bucchero vases decorated according to the taste and techniques of different periods, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Age. It also houses finds which date back to the Roman Age, some objects accompanying the dead man which include weapons and tools of domestic use which date back to the Longobard Age, some sculptures, which belonged to the S. Savino Cathedral in Castro and very interesting frescoes which trace back to the Middle Ages. The latter, in particular, come from the hermitage of Poggio Conte, a suggestive, rocky place, among the most interesting in the area. Finally, in this museum you can admire capitals and mouldings retrieved from the Piazza Maggiore of the destroyed town of Castro, which belonged to buildings designed by Antonio da Sangallo Il Giovane and a set of pottery from the "butti" (pits) of the Farnese Palace in Ischia di Castro <<back |
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