Sangiuliano in Paestum, a fundamental level for our way of life

‘Prehistory and Protohistory’, ‘The Greek-Lucanian metropolis’ with the rooms dedicated to sanctuaries and public area, ‘Beyond the museum’ are the new sections that have reopened to the public, inside the presence of the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano In the National archaeological museum of Paestum. “The new layout confirms the exceptional fee of the Paestum and Velia archaeological park region, however in particular its vast capability”

“Only a few months in the past, in April, we had in truth celebrated the discovery of hundreds of votive offerings, statues and altars in the small temple of Paestum. This jewel of our state’s archaeological heritage is favored and loved, as proven with the aid of the facts on admissions: handiest in first Sunday of October the Park and Museum recorded over 15 thousand visitors. These are high-quality numbers that push us even extra to work with most commitment to strengthen conservation and improvement activities of this place”, he provides.

“We have already made an preliminary allocation for the Velia museum, similarly assets will arrive. Furthermore, we will finance the brand new excavations of Paestum and the association of the partitions via an anastylosis operation”, explains Sangiuliano. The protection works of the Museum do no longer prevent and will retain within the ‘Lucanian artwork’ room, inside the ‘Necropolis’ room and within the ‘Paestum: from the Roman town to the cutting-edge age’ section, whose crowning glory is scheduled for the end of this 12 months. Yr.

“It is a project that we were carrying out for years and which has no longer yet been completely concluded. But, nowadays, we're inaugurating a totally big part of the National Archaeological Museum of Paestum – explains the director of the Archaeological Park of Paestum and Velia, Tiziana D’Angelo – we inaugurate the entire section devoted to prehistory and protohistory, a very important a part of the segment devoted to the Greek and Lucanian towns, consequently to the Magna Graecia colony of Poseidonia, to the land of the Lucanians with its sanctuaries, with its agora, with its Heroon committed to the founding hero. And we also are beginning a segment that takes the vacationer past the everlasting exhibition and up to the deposits of the archaeological museum”.

Also gift at the rite was the deputy foreign minister, Edmondo Cirielli, consistent with whom Paestum “is a completely unique, great world historical past web page which deserves appreciate. In the beyond, as president of the Province of Salerno I could have performed something, however the belongings belonged to the ministry of Cultural Heritage. I am satisfied that Minister Sangiuliano idea it turned into a priority. Unfortunately, there were no projects in past years and the Region has also been very missing.”

Meanwhile, in Velia “we have just started a new stratigraphic excavation campaign on the acropolis”, declares D’Angelo. “The objective is to continue with the investigations of a constructing from the sixth century BC, probable the first temple erected by means of the Phocaeans upon their arrival at the coasts of Cilento, therefore right away after the foundation of the colony of Elea. We also are working at the redevelopment of a former railway tunnel that we will transform into an available depot and a layout for a new archaeological museum of Elea-Velia”.