Guided Visits
  OF BMTA 2007


The borsa offers the possibility of free visits to these cultural sites:

  • Museo Archeologico Nazionale - Paestum
  • Parco Archeologico di Paestum
  • Museo Narrante del Santuario di Hera Hargiva alla foce del Sele - Paestum
  • Parco Archeologico di Velia
  • Area Archeologica di Fratte - Salerno
  • Museo Archeologico di Eboli
  • Museo Archeologico di Pontecagnano
  • Battistero Paleocristiano di Nocera Superiore
The Tour Operators, the realtors the journalists, the hosts, the schools and the visitors, accompanied by guides coordinated from the Archaeological Soprintendenza, Bn, Av, from Soprintendenza BAPPSAE, who know the salernitano territory
 
Guided Visits Program
 
UNDER THE WING OF THE SOPRINTENDENZA ARCHEOLOGICA DI SALERNO - AVELLINO - BENEVENTO
 
 
Museo Archeologico Nazionale - Paestum
 
The Museum collects unparalleled reports coming from the city and the territory of Poseidonia-Paestum: prehistoric funerary equipment, recovered architectonic and sculpture rests in the diggings. Of great interest is the futile statue seated of Zeus from the 6 century. a.C., large feminine bust, the lacking the head, from the end of the 6 century a.C., the amphora’s to hydria in bronze from the 6 century a.C.. The painted slabs coming from some 120 tombs up to now recovered, between one of the most famous is the painted tomb of the Diver from 480 a.C.. Sculptures, marmoreal registrations, cult objects, fragments and amphoras are the testimony of the Roman Age in Paestum
 
 
Museo Narrante del Santuario di Hera Hargiva alla foce del Sele - Paestum
 
The sanctuary of Hera Argiva is found approximately 8 km from Paestum in proximity of the foce of the Sele. The expositive structure proposes the various keys of reading of the sanctuary, situated an archaeological site that introduces little visible elements. It is however, a mythical place from many points of view: the myth of its foundation from part of Giasone: the cult of lasted Hera centuries still today recognizable in the religious transposition in the cult of the Madonna of Granato of Capaccio; the heroic and exciting adventure of the first diggings until more recent searches; the importance of the reports, the importance of the metope archaic until the thousands of ri-found ceramics and statuette votive. The storys unravelled through films, three-dimensional reconstructions, sonorous video-installations, effects and illustrated panels that accompany the visitor throughout the whole visit. .
 
 
Parco Archeologico di Velia
 

Velia, ancient Elea, was founded around540 a.C. by the Focei colonies which came fromAsia to battle Ciro’s army. Here Parmenide and Zenone were born and with the eleatica school, reference in the philosophical culture of the antiquity. In the modern remains the city system is obvious through which Door is approached through the imposing "rose" only example of Greek architecture with time all sixth. Pregevole is the wall of the sacred fencing with the charming stoà or porch, paved in bricks from the Hellenistic Ages..

 
 
 

Poseidonia was founded Greek colony to the end of the 7 sec. a.C. by the Sibariti. Conquered to the end of the 5 sec. a.C. by theLucani, in 3 sec. a.C. becameimposing temples are gilded, going back to the IV and V sec. a.C.: the Basilica of Hera, the Temple of Neptune or Poseidon and the Temple of Cerere. The Basilica is the most ancient of the Paestum temples: it rises solemnly, with the gilded columns of the arch, orienting to east. The most classic and perfect example of a Doric temple of the Greek world is surely Neptune’s temple. To the northern extremity of the sacred zone the templeCerere rises, dedicated to Athena. The diggings regard an immense area of the city with other huge buildings like the thermes, the porch of the hole, the amphitheatre.

 
 
Area Archeologica di Fratte - Salerno
 

An important preroman centre, with ruins dating back to the sec. a.C., in which Etruscans, Greeks and Aborigines cohabited. The Archaeological zone was defined "acropolis" for the topographical position of the findings because the recovered structures left a glimpse of a religious and civil centre at the peak of the takeover. The imposing rests of the necropolis from the Samnite age from the IV sec. a.C..

 
 
Museo Archeologico Provinciale - Salerno
 
Rich documentation of the entire province of Salerno, from the prehistoric to the middle ages. In prime position is the equipment of the princess's tomb of Roscigno, from the end of the V and beginning IV sec. a.C.. we see ceramic bells, Samnites are conserved moreover and lucane of the Hellenistic age, Etruscan china, ornaments in bronze including the admirable Head of Apollo recovered in waters of the Salerno Gulf. Draft of a precious one originates them late-Hellenistic, dated in the first half of the sec. a.C., attributed to the Pasiteles artist, born in Magna Greece..
 
 
Santa Maria de Lama e San Pietro a Corte - Salerno
 

The first document in which Blade gave back in 1055 is cited the church of Saint Maria de: "Ecclesia sancte Marie ubi blade dicitur... constructa intus hanc salernitanam civitatem", but probably has origin more ancient. Saint Maria de Blade, placed in the heart of the historical centre of the city, conserve the only testimonies of the Lombard period in Salerno. On the inside, two columns are decorated with fresco nearly at natural largeness: on one Christ with the cross is represented, on the other is a feminine figure, perhaps Magdalene. The church of San Pietro a Corte, known as the nail head tippet founded from prince Arechi II, in around 787, is today the complex of greater importance of the historical centre of Salerno. Archaeological surveying currently in course, has brought to light the Roman area. The area comprises, beyond the atmospheres immediately below, once occupied by shops, also the area pertaining to confraternity of S. Anna. In the XIII century the church was used as a meeting centrefor the Parliament: in it public ceremonies were often celebrated, between which the bestowal of the diplomas of the Medical School Salernitan.

   
 
Battistero Paleocristiano di Santa Maria Maggiore
 
Il Battistero, la cui forma circolare gli ha conferito l’appellativo di “Rotonda”, faceva parte di un più vasto complesso.
La prima attestazione scritta risale a un diploma dell’anno 841 d.C. Impostata su 15 archivolti e sorretta da altrettante coppie di colonne lisce, la cupola copre la vasca battesimale centrale, di forma ottagonale, seconda in Italia solo a quella di San Giovanni in Laterano.Tutti gli elementi
marmorei della decorazione architettonica, le basi, i fusti di colonne, i capitelli e le cornici modanate sono di spoglio e in evidente funzione di reimpiego.
   
 
Teatro ellenistico-romano
 
Edificato nel II secolo a.C. e addossato scenograficamente alla cinta muraria meridionale, fu ingrandito da 76 a 96 m in epoca augustea o tiberiana.
È uno degli edifici scenici più grandi della Campania antica. Sia l’orchestra sia la scaenae frons erano adornati da marmi preziosi e statue.
Subì ulteriori restauri dopo il terremoto del 62 d.C.
   
 
 
Pinto palace, dwelling nobly in the heart of the historical centre, accommodates the Provincial Pinacoteca. Showing paintings that go from the Renaissance to the first half of the 1900's. In the valuable Renaissance section they are the tables of Andrea from Salerno and the Master of the Incoronazione di Eboli. Of great interest the sixth century burlaps of Giovanni Batiste Caracciolo, Andrea De Lioni, Carl Rose. Of the 1700's they are the burlaps of Francisco Solimena and his Academy. The many paintings of Salerno and Costaioli painters from the second half of the 1900's. A section is dedicated to the foreign artists, who realized the exposed works here
 
 
 

It receives ceramics in maximum part from Vietri, but also coming from other sites of the Campania, Puglia, Calabria, Liguria. The ancient exemplary other than Vietri ceramics go back to the end of the sec. XV. This production becomes part in a tradition of working of the clay that it sees been involved Salerno since and its immediate districts from the pre-Roman Ages. To XVII century they go back the ancient exemplary of the votive tiles. It has a rich testimony of 1920’s and 40’s, of the famous ‘German’period, with pieces of North European authors realized in Vietri.

   
 
VISUAL TOUR

 






 
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