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  • 1.AQUILONIA

2. An ancient small town of Oscan origin, AQUILONIAbecame one of the most important centres in Samnium. Itwas destroyed by the Romans in 293 B.C., ravaged bybarbarians in the 6th century and then rebuilt by theLombards. It was destroyed again by the Normans in 1078. Till the end of the 15th century, its population lived in thecentre of Carbonara and in various hamlets, placenamesof which still exist (Casalvetere, Pietrapalomba, Sassano, Pesco di Rago, S. Leonardo, etc.). 3. Afterwards, the fief of Carbonara/Aquilonia belonged tothe Del Balzo family, then to the Caracciolo family and, up to 1806, to the Imperiale family. A violent antiliberal uprising in 1860 caused nine victims; it was followed bybloody repression and the old name of the town, Aquilonia, was re-established. 4. The old urban centre was damaged by recurrent earthquakes, the last of which in 1930 was catastrophic. The new town wasrebuilt southwestward, about one kilometre away from the old one: its subdivision into small insulae (islands), its large, straightstreets, and its moderate height buildings make Aquilonia a modern small town where staying is pleasant. 5. In the wholeterritory Samnite, Roman, andLombard tombsare found, as well asabundant clay,stone, andmetal material.In the localitynamed Groveggiante, a necropolis of the 4th 3rd centuries B.C. has been 6. Thanks to special recovering-rebuilding-reassembling interventions, the old centre of Carbonara, which has beenrediscovered after seventy years of neglect and looting, has been transformed into a striking Archaeological Park. 7. It is a big-sized Park, withthe ancient town planperfectly preserved. Theancient Carbonara,brought to light andreassembled, looks like a medieval Pompeii. 8. Besides the wonderful pavingof the Piazza Municipio (TownHall Square), where stood thetwo churches (San Giovanni and LImmacolata), the Town Hall, the Magistrates Courthouse, the Grain Pool,and the Prison, you can also admire the remains of old palaces. 9. A building in the Park, which has been putback into use and fitted for exhibition needs, houses a MUSEUM OF TRAVELLING TOWNS,containing historical documents, written texts,photos, period films, videos, and explanatorypanels. 10. The big ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUM of Aquilonia contains about 13,000 (thirteen thousand) original objects, which have beengathered with a painstaking piece of research: tools,implements, outfits and furniture, utensils and furnishings, finds and documents of all kinds, displayed in an evocative atmosphere, tell the stories and the everyday existence of many generations of the local community which havefollowed one anotherthrough the centuries, thus bringingback to life a lost world. 11. All that material has not been arranged by collections, butonly used to reconstruct with philological rigour house and work environments, real-life scenes that allow us to travelback to an old reality and to plunge as by magic into the millenary history of our civilization. 12. The Ethnographic Museum is a very effectiveteaching instrument, it is like a big book written using the silent, evocative language of the material culture, which fascinates the visitor and gets him to be emotionally involved. 13. The display, covering about 1.500 (one thousand five hundred) sq.m and an open-air fitted-out area, is dividedinto more than 130 (onehundred thirty) settings, which are grouped into 12 (twelve) thematic sections. 14. The Ethnographic Museum of Aquilonia is, in its field, one ofthe richest, best organized, and most exhaustive museums inItaly: all aspects, even the least ones, of the communitys lifein bygone days are shown andrigorously documented. 15. ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES / INTERESTING MONUMENTS LAKE SAN PIETRO 16. AN AGE-OLD HUGE-SIZED OAK TREE (about 2 m diameter) AT CONTRADA SAN VITO 17. ABBEY of SAN VITO MARTIRE (12th century) 18. PUBLIC FOUNTAIN AND WASH-HOUSE (18th century) 19. WELCOMEENJOR YOUR VISIT__________________________________________________________aquilonia_via carbonara, 3 tel/fax 082783826 MUSEO ETNOGRAFICO beniamino tartagliawww.aquiloniamusei.it