COMITINI

ANTIQUARIUM "Bellacera"

PIAZZA Umberto I TEL. 0922600359 VISITING HOURS: Mon to Sat: 9,00 a.m. - 1,00 p.m. / 4,00 p.m. - 8,00 p.m. FREE ADMISSION

The Antiquarium was inaugurated in summer 1997, in Palazzo Bellacera. Restoration works in the Palazzo left unchanged the original characteristics. In fact the barrel and the cross vaults, the pointed arch and the roofs, which have been paved with ceramic tiles with geometrical and floral colored patterns. The original tiles have been restaured and the others were built on the originals. The Palazzo was built in xvi century and it is a very important cultural-historic-artistic element, as, in function of the feud which it was built for, it gave the birth and the development of the village of Comitini. The Antiquarium is located in the roofs of the Palazzo, among the rooms' vaults, where you can walk through metallic grid looking at the below vaults.
It has six show-cases with photos and explanation panels, which describe 7000 years of history of civilties operating in the territory of Comitini. In fact we can find iv millennium B.C. lithic tools, Castellucciana pottery from bronze age, glazed pottery from Arab period (ix - xi century A.D.). Among the pieces, we can look at a Castellucciana style cup dated back to the ii millennium B.C. and a fragment of a plate with Arabian drawings (century xii-xiii A. D.). Very interesting is a millstone dated back to the iv millennium B.C.