The museum tells the life and history of the castle and includes a visit to all the halls of the castle and to the rooms of the fortress and tower including the internal chapel and the towers. Along the way, reproductions of costumes and armour are shown and daily life Read more…
The local museum tells the relationship between man and the territory understood as an agricultural and mining landscape. For many years, the Santo Spirito Hospital that managed all this territory had benefited from mining operations (we are not far from the Tolfa Mountains rich in alum deposits). As regards the Read more…
The link with the sea in this stretch of coast, over the centuries, starting from the Bronze Age with the port of Pyrgi, where an important Etruscan sanctuary was located, is told in a splendid tour in a museum set up inside the castle of Santa Severa. In one room, Read more…
The Museum of Salento Civilization has a large collection of over 5000 pieces with agricultural equipment and tools of the past used until the mid-twentieth century. The exhibition winds along the corridors creating thematic spaces where you can find the artisanal laboratories of shoemakers, farriers, iron workers, umbrella fabricaters, sharpeners Read more…
Accessible thanks to the recent arrangement of the visit routes and immersed in a luxuriant valley of vegetation, the archaeological area of Santa Maria la Vetere will surprise you with its beauty. It includes the Church of Santa Maria La Vetere, with the cemetery area of crypts that extended under Read more…
Antonio Cannata is a contemporary painter (1945) of great standing, originally from Militello who in 1985 opened his museum house here, where in 5 rooms he exhibited his works to visitors.
The Museum is named after the militellese painter Sebastiano Guzzone (1856-1890) and built inside the former Convent of the Dominican Friars, the Militello Museum and Archive boasts a precious collection of archaeological finds from the territory (such as the objects found in the Greek necropolis di Filodidonna), paintings, sculptures (including Read more…
The Museum is located in the crypts of the mother church and contains the treasures of 7 churches of Militello. It was established in 1985, designed by the architect Giuseppe Pagnano and with the support of the parish community, thanks to the restoration of the crypts under the right transept Read more…
In the Church of Santa Maria della Stella, there is the Treasure, kept in a sacred chapel enclosed by three keys. The statue of the Madonna and its processional fercolo, safely placed here since 1755 at the behest of Prince Ercole Branciforti, are safe there. The treasure, in addition to Read more…
The municipal library, named after Angelo Majorana (1865-1910), deputy of the Kingdom of Italy and Minister of Finance, has its headquarters today in the renovated premises of the former Convent of San Domenico dei Frati Predicatori. It was established in 1910 and boasts a collection of books of around 40,000 Read more…
