A PIECE OF HEAVEN
NAPOLI
CASERTA
BENEVENTO
AVELLINO
SALERNO
The treasure chest, in the center, is a monastery dedicated to Holy Mary the Nova dating back to 1521, when it was created within the pre existing medieval castle “Casale Nuovo”.
The great river accompanied them through the Apennines. They had travelled along its course from the Adriatic, looking for new fertile and welcoming lands beyond the mountains.
Un edificio in pietra, armonicamente inserito in una pineta e collocato su uno sperone di roccia che sovrasta la splendida cala con la spiaggia di Ficocella.
Quando nel Trecento cominciò a formarsi sull’isola grande, davanti al Castello allora Città d’Ischia, era il Borgo di Mare.
In origine ci fu un Antiquarium, ricavato nell’ampio spazio che anticamente era stato usato come cisterna per gli abitanti di Villa de’ Bagni, l’attuale Ischia Porto.
In the night, the scenographic lights enhance and soften the imposing shapes of the fortress with four towers, subtracted from the aggressions of time and the effects of a long abandonment.
Aveva solo venticinque anni quando la vita la abbandonò. In suo onore fu costruita una grande tomba, come era d’uso fra le famiglie nobili e ricche della comunità, dove un letto di pietra accolse le sue spoglie.
In the 1930s it was built to be used as a slaughterhouse. In the center of Terzigno, the building on two floors, with simple and elegant lines, fell into total abandonment only a few decades later.
Il Complesso Museale dell'Abbazia si sviluppa nei piani inferiori articolandosi su tre livelli. Dopo aver disceso diciotto gradini, si giunge al primo livello che custodisce un Presepe permanente composto prevalentemente da antichi pastori di scuola napoletana del XVIII secolo, in legno e terracotta.
“Il più bel museo di provincia italiano” (Amedeo Maiuri)
La passione per le arti trasmessa in famiglia avevano potuto coltivarla e affinarla fin da bambini. E da adulti non avevano trascurato di visitare musei in giro per l’Europa e di continuare ad arricchire le già importanti collezioni messe insieme da generazioni
Originally it was Pietra Bianca. Then, after the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631 whose materials reached there, the name changed to Pietrarsa.
A pochi passi dagli scavi archeologici dell’antica Herculaneum sorge il MAV, un centro di cultura e di tecnologia applicata ai Beni Culturali e alla comunicazione, tra i più all’avanguardia in Italia.
Man and Environment in the Vesuvian Territory
It is the ideal ending of the visit to the adjacent Villa Regina, the only one of the rustic villas in Boscoreale to be open to the public.
From Boccaccio to the Grand Tour and now also museum.
Clean air and lush green. Plus the unforgettable view over the Gulf of Naples. These features attracted attention to the hill at the bottom of Mount Faito, which appeared to be an ideal place to build a royal residence. As it happened in the second half of the 13th century, definitely before 1280. The first to enjoy the excellent position of that building was Charles I of Anjou, at whose epoch date back the oldest documents of
A rocky spur rising from the sea. An amazing view from the Gulf of Naples. A wide park of Mediterranean plants, with abundant massive historic trees and flowers. And a magnificent nineteenth-century two- story villa in Neoclassic style, harmoniously inserted in the landscape, rich of prestigious embellishments inside and outside, which a meticulous and respectful renovation has restored to its original appearance after the earthquake of 1980.
A mine of archaeological findings, works of art, documents and historical evidence. It is the Museo Provinciale Campano of Capua, founded in 1870 by the canon Gabriele Iannelli, an illustrious archaeologist who was also its first director, and inaugurated in 1874 in the prestigious Antignano Palace, an appropriate treasure chest for such a significant content.
The museum, housed in the Tower of Sant’Erasno, displays the materials obtained from the excavation campaigns carried out in the territory of Capua in the second half of the 20th century. In the ten rooms open to the public, the findings from the 10th to the 1st century BC are exhibited in chronological order and taking into account the context of the excavation.
He had returned to Padula in March 1909 that would have been fatal to him. A few days before reaching his main destination, Palermo, where the mafia was already warned and ready to kill him.
On the 25th of January, 2021, the newly refurbished Antiquarium of Pompeii opens to the public: a museum specifically intended as a permanent exhibition for the finds illustrating the history of Pompeii.
Contemporary to the Padula one, the complex of the Charterhouse on the Vomero hill dominating the city is part of the context of Angevin religious patronage and shows the expansion of the Cartusians order into the Kingdom of Naples.
In the central district of San Lorenzo, in Via Settembrini, the Museum of contemporary art, well-known with the acronym “Madre”, is identified with the historic Donnaregina Palace, edified in the 18th century on a section of the ancient city walls of the 5th and 6th centuries, which is visible in the ticket office area, with modifications dating back to the 19th century.
An art treasure at the service of science. The historic Pharmacy of the Incurable has been like this since its foundation, an integral part of the complex which included originally the Hospital of Santa Maria del Popolo of the Incurable and the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo, near the upper decumanus, in the heart of Naples.
The museum on the hill of Capodimonte, established in 1957, boasts a historical origin linked to the birth of the independent Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. That site still completely devoid of buildings in the area of St. Carlo all'Arena, outside the walls, but incorporated into the city by the very northward movement of the walls wanted by don Pedro de Toledo.
The main museum of the city, Museo del Sannio, is divided into four sections: archeology, medieval, art and history. Located in different locations, all of great historical value.
It’s only a Museum of Contemporary Art according to its name, but in reality, this small museum in the basement of the Government Palace in central Corso Garibaldi offers a surprising exhibition inside.
An early medieval church that has been deconsecrated for three centuries, a building from the second century A.D. with even older evidence: this is the monumental complex of Sant'Ilario in Port'Aurea, because located in the immediate vicinity of Porta Aurea, as the Trajan's Arch was renamed in the Longobards era.
The underground floor of the cathedral, a mine of archeological informations about the life of the population of Benevento following one another from Prehistory to Middle Age.
In the ancient religious complex of San Felice, in the 17th-century Capuchin convent, transformed into a prison after the unification of Italy, the Archaeological Superintendency has now its seat.
Located right next to the Capuchin convent to which it is connected, there are exhibited numerous items of daily us, property of the Saint of Pietrelcina, who was elected priest in Benevento.
To the protagonist of Lamartine’s famous novel, a classic of Romanticism, since 1939, has been dedicated a competition to identify “Graziella” among the young women of Procida who, for the occasion wear the rich and traditional dress, handed down from generation to generation, described with great precision by Lamartine in his work set in the Procida of the early nineteenth century.
The National Archaeological Museum of Sannio Caudino has its seat in the Castle of Montesarchio, with the findings of funerary objects dating back to the 10th/9th century and the Roman era, found in the necropolis of Caudium, Saticula (Sant'Agata de 'Goti) and Telesia (San Salvatore Telesino).
A journey backwards in time. Until the Cretaceous, 110 million years ago, when on the slope of the Matese, where Pietraroja rises, the lagoon was expanded.
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