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The building's view of the river. Inside, the museum contains artifacts and testimonies of life in Abruzzo, from Prehistory to the Industrial Revolution. [3]Of interest, located next to the atrium with the ticket office, is a small museum of the ancient Spanish fortress or "Real Piazza di Pescara", which later (the Via delle Caserme section) became a penal bath during the Bourbon era.
The Museo Nazionale d'Abruzzo is hosted in the Forte Spagnolo of L'Aquila. [1]The Museum is on three floors: on the ground floor, there is the giant skeleton of an Archidiskon meridionalis (improperly called mammoth, a prehistoric "elephant") found a few miles from Aquila in 1954, and an archeological section with pieces of the Italic pre-Roman period, a section with inscriptions and pieces ...
Antonio Sicurezza (1905–1979), was a famous painter, born at Santa Maria Capua Vetere, in Campania. Renato Guttuso (1912–1987), painter. "He was a forceful personality and Italy's leading exponent of Social Realism in the 20th century." [60] Antonio Cardile (1914–1986), was an artist of the Roman School of painting.
Today it houses the Museum of the Abruzzi people: [12] the institution traces, through 13 halls dedicated to aspects of life, traditions and economy, 4,000 years of history of the Abruzzo people. In the historic city center are the birthplace houses of Gabriele D'Annunzio [13] and Ennio Flaiano, and the San Cetteo Cathedral, built between 1933 ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... This is a list of museums in Abruzzo, Italy. [1] [2] ... National Archaeological Museum of Abruzzo:
The museum's collection includes paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, including a detached fresco from the 13th–14th century, a Madonna attributed to Silvestro dell'Aquila dating between the 15th and 16th centuries, and a Madonna with Child by his pupil Carlo dell'Aquila, a triptych with sculptures by Tolmezzini from the early 16th century, a Madonna and Saints by Antonio Solario, a ...
Located in the town is a private museum devoted to the folklore of Torricella Sicura and the surrounding area. It includes more than 16,000 pieces of memorabilia divided into three main sections. The first is a presentation of very detailed and accurate historical farming scenes done in miniature 1:5 scale.