The CAMUSAC – Cassino Museum of Contemporary Art is housed in rehabilitated industrial buildings and is managed by a foundation. Its permanent collection includes about 250 works by contemporary artists and some sculptures have been placed in the park of the museum complex of Cassino.
The Historiale Museum of Cassino was inaugurated in 2004 on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Battle of Montecassino, to honour the fallen of all the nations of the Second World War. Its layout was designed and produced by the creative genius of Carlo Rambaldi, the Oscar-winner for Read more…
The National Archaeological Museum “Gianfilippo Carrettoni” of Cassino, named after the archaeologist who carried out excavations in the ancient Casinum, is placed within the Roman city and encompasses ancient environments. The exhibits are housed in three rooms: the prehistoric-protohistoric section, the section dedicated to ceramics and architectural materials, and the Read more…
Many of the fallen of the four battles of Cassino rest in the military cemeteries, visited each year for poignant commemorations ceremonies and pilgrimages from all over the world. In Cassino there are the Commonwealth War Cemetery (with 4,266 graves of soldiers from the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Read more…
The Casinum amphitheatre was built in the second half of the first century. B.C. outside the city walls, exploiting and shaping part of the natural slope. The building was used for fights of wild animals and shows of gladiators and has a rather small elliptical plan. Inscriptions found report that Read more…
In the heart of the Roman city, in the Augustan age was built this reticulated theatre in two colours that exploits the natural slope of the mountain. The auditorium, designed for spectators, has semicircular tiers running vertically of five stairs and is divided into two sections, upper and lower. In Read more…
On the acropolis of ancient Casinum, on the slope of a mountain, is the most famous monastery of Christianity, founded by Benedict of Nursia in the year 529. The saint dictated the Regula (monastic rules), that added study and manual labour to prayer, and it created the basis for the Read more…
My first realisation of the reality of WW2 in Cassino and the area called Ciociaria in central-south Italy was learning the story of Montecassino, the Benedictine Monastery at the end of the Benedictine Way that sits on the spur of Mount Cassino above today’s town of Cassino. The monastery can Read more…
The magic of a spectacle at the Roman theatre in Cassino brings back ancient atmosphere and emotions that thousands of people came here to experience, from every part of the Roman empire. The theatre lies on the side of the mountain, according to the style of the Greek theatres, with Read more…
On the ‘hinge’ between the geographical cultures of southern Italy, the city of Cassino is located on the foothills of a mountain, in a valley watered by the rivers Rapido and Gari where conquerors have passed throughout the millennia with every type of army. The city flourished in Roman times Read more…
