MARTA – NATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF TARANTO.

 The MArTa is one of the most important archaeological museums in Italy; it tells the story of Taranto and the surrounding area from Prehistory to medieval times.

Taranto is the ancient capital of Magna Graecia.

The Museum is located at “ex Convento di San Pasquale di Babylon” close to “Giardini di piazza Garibaldi”.

The rooms on the mezzanine floor are dedicated to archaeology, with over two hundred thousand artefacts, dating from Prehistoric times to the Middle Ages – the visitors’ route follows the collection’s chronological order, starting from the 5th millennium B.C. The first meeting between the indigenous Iapygian population and the Aegean world predates Sparta’s colonization of the Gulf of Taranto, and visitors can admire everyday objects relating to worship and funerary rituals in Greek Taranto.

Here you can see the famous Ori (gold collection of Taranto): signet rings, bracelets, oak leaf tiaras, which testify to the prolific local craft goldsmith production between the fourth and second centuty B.C.

And then the legacy of the city necropolis, mosaic floors of public and private buildings of the imperial age and the Art Gallery with important paintings of Neapolitan School.

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