Il Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Palestrina partecipa sabato 17 maggio alla Notte europea dei Musei, con un’apertura straordinaria dalle 20 fino alle 24 (ultimo ingresso alle 23) ed ingresso al costo di 1 €. Il programma di iniziative accosterà l’arte antica e l’archeologia alla musica e al gusto, per coinvolgere il pubblico in un’esperienza culturale ricca e diversificata. Alle 20.45, …

The National Archaeological Museum of Palestrina, hosted inside the Colonna-Barberini Palace, was opened in 1998; the Museum set-up was based substantially on thematic criteria that took in considaration the chronological elements and source of finds. The museum itinerary takes place within succession of different themes, from the cult of Fortune, Hellenistic and Iconic sculpture to the Augustan and Imperial Age …

The old palace was built by Colonna family on the structures of semi cycle above the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia around 1050, when family settled at Palestrina. The building underwent a first destruction in 1298, when Palestrina, after a siege that lasted nearly a year, was compleatly destroyed on demande of Boniface VIII, who had ordered the confiscation of family’s …

The typical Roman House, which was widely distributed (from the beginning) even in the Latin cities such as Praeneste, was called domus by the Latins. Today archaeologists indicate with this word urban single-family housing, variable-size, whose rooms are articulated around a central opend courtyard (atrium) that provides light inside the rooms, usually closed to outside for safety reasons. At the …

The story of Palestrina during the Imperial age is less known, but to judge from the inscriptions, remains of buildings and evidences of considerable artistic level, that have been preserved to the present day, it was a period of discreet prosperity, however not comparable with the splendors of the Republican Age. In the Augustan Age the monuments and archaeological finds …

At the end of the 2nd century BC a new sensitive rebirth of Praeneste was noticed, a period of great prosperity and wealth, documented mainly by impressive and monumental urban restoration of public buildings of civil and sacred character. The Prenestins in fact, like citizens of many other small centers of Latium region took advantage of Rome’s wars in the …