Archaeology

An ancient region

This journey back in time covers a range of epochs starting from the villages of the Terramare and going all the way up to the Byzantine settlements. Each time period will be presented through sites, parks and museums representing the archeological heritage of the Emilia Romagna region.

Veleia Romana

In this archeological site near Piacenza, a new pathway has been outfitted with informational plaques and a museum area has been set up, with interesting artifacts from the 18th century dig of this ancient city, founded in 158 BC, which reached its height during the age of Augustus.

Tamo. All the adventure
of the mosaic

Besides the rare mosaics, some of which have never been seen before, from Ravenna and its surrounding areas, this museum exhibition also offers state of the art multimedia tools to help visitors discover how mosaics are made and their geographical locations interactively.

what not to miss

THE surgeon's DOMUS

After 2000 years it is possible to admire a "little Pompei" in the city centre of Rimini. Here archaeologists have found one of the richest collections of surgical and pharmaceutical equipment of ancient times, now kept in the nearby Municipal Museum.

THE DOMUS DEI TAPPETI
DI PIETRA

Located inside the Church of Sant'Eufemia in Ravenna, the Domus consists of 14 rooms and 3 courtyards with marbles and mosaics decorated with geometric shapes, floral patterns and figurative scenes dating from the 5th and 6th centuries AD.

ANZOLA AT THE TIME OF
THE TERRAMARE PEOPLE

In honor of the opening of the new branch of the environmental Archeological Museum in Anzola (BO), the museum will host an exhibition documenting the villages of pile structures built by populations during the Bronze Age (16th - 17th century BC).