In Cassino, the archaeological area of ancient Casinum reopens.

On the occasion of European Archaeology Days, the Archaeological Area of Ancient Casinum reopens in Cassino. From Sunday, June 18, after work on the hillside, visitors will be able to visit the entire archaeological area with the so-called Via Latina, the burial ground, the Mausoleum of Ummidia Quadratilla and return to walk inside Cassino’s largest monument of Roman Antiquity, theAmphitheater.

As the director of the National Archaeological Museum “Gianfilippo Carettoni” and the Casinum Archaeological Area Marco Musmeci explained at the Lazio Culture Day promoted by the Rotary Club of Cassino last April 28, “both the Museum and thearea will be the subject of important projects (some financed with the PNRR) that will allow a better use of these places of culture, developing the reception, knowledge, conservation and enhancement of this important cultural compendium.”

The reopening of the archaeological area to the public is a first step in this direction and makes it possible to reunite the monuments with the artifacts housed in the museum. The museum collection holds important relics from the past, which chronologically tell the story of an area from prehistoric and protohistoric times to the Republican and Imperial Roman ages, including the Sword of St. Victor (from the late 4th, early 3rd cent. B.C.E.), the rich funerary bed from Aquinum (datable to II-I B.C.E.) and found in 1936, in the Theater of ancient Casinum, the virile statue in heroic nudity of the Hero/Athlete of Cassino (1st cent. B.C.E.).

Also that, in the halls of the museum is displayed a section of the exhibition Spirits of Olympia. Images of Paritans. The exhibition, curated by Marco Musmeci, aligns a series of photographs of athletes in places of industrial archaeology, in an evocative dialogue with the statues of Classical Antiquity: yet another good reason to visit the National Archaeological Museum “Gianfilippo Carettoni” of Cassino and the Archaeological Area of Casinum. The National Archaeological Museum and Casinum Archaeological Area open daily in summer: the archaeological area from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and the museum from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

In Cassino, the archaeological area of ancient Casinum reopens.

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