The civic museum of Viterbo is a collection of finds that traces some moments in the history of the city from the Roman Etruscan period and a collection of paintings from the Middle Ages to the modern era. Most of the exhibited material comes from the Collection that Luigi Rossi Read more…
The Diocesan Museum of Albano Laziale is located in the Bishops Palace, or Palazzo Lercari, built in 1727 by Cardinal Nicolò Maria Lercari inside the ancient perimeter of the Second Partic Legion camp, and was built on the Roman ruins of the “small thermal bath” . The collection is spread Read more…
The museum is located in the basement of Palazzo Sforza and collects material used in traditional work by peasants of the past. You can see old tools and wagons used in the past to transport goods and pulled by animals.
The archaeological area of Volsinii includes a vast area on which stood the ancient Roman city of Volsinii (now Bolsena), probably founded previously by the Etruscans. The forum and an ancient pagan temple have been identified, the temple later being transformed into a Catholic church, sections of the protective wall, Read more…
The museum is located inside the Rocca (Fortress) Monaldeschi and is accessed by crossing a sort of ‘drawbridge’ from which you access the inner courtyard of the Rocca. Here are placed in order a series of tombstones and funerary stones of Roman times and you can access the towers from Read more…
The museum contains archaeological finds of prehistoric times (from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic), Roman (I – II century BC) and medieval. The most significant material is a fang “Elephans antiquus”, a fragment of ulna, and tibia from a “Homo Erectus” of 430,000 years.
The museum is located inside a medieval building in the centre of Viterbo and tells the story of the carriage (machine) with the exhibition of models of the various carriages from 1690 up to the present day. Recall that the carriage is changed every 5 years following a public competition Read more…
Viterbo is located in the southern part of the Etruria and in the whole area many artifacts have been found. The Etruscan museum, the monumental Rocca Albornoz at the centre of Viterbo, houses a rich collection and a representation of the daily life of the Etruscans and includes the reconstruction Read more…
Housed in four rooms of the seventeenth century Cathedral, the City Museum collects fragments of the history of this area gathered as testimony to the past. The collection includes some Roman archaeological finds, a medieval papal bull, majolica of XVI-XVIII centuries, seventeenth-century paintings. Engravings and original documentary material from the Read more…
The center of the Roman city was to be near the current center of Piazza Mazzoli where the cathedral and town hall are located. Under the town hall there is the ‘underground Veroli’ with a cryptoporticus, a network of rooms that connects the town hall and the cathedral and which Read more…
