Scolacium Archaeological Park- Catanzaro

SCOLACIUM ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK- CATANZARO

Scolacium Archaeological Park- Catanzaro

Tome esculturas griegas y hallazgos arqueológicos, mezclarlas con la naturaleza y aquí
toma la forma Scolacium Parque Arqueológico, cerca de Catanzaro. Tenemos que ser exacto en la localidad de Borja, a poca distancia al sur de Catanzaro Lido, donde a partir de 1982 se puede ver un lugar donde lo antiguo y moderno se funden para crear una obra gigante del arte.
Los hallazgos arqueológicos han desenterrado los restos de la antigua colonia griega de Skylletion, más tarde convertidos por los romanos en el año 120 antes de Cristo colacium

Take Greek sculptures and archaeological finds, mix them with the nature and here takes the form Scolacium Archaeological Park, near Catanzaro.
We have to be exact in the town of Borgia, a short distance south of Catanzaro Lido, where from 1982 you can see a place where old and new blend together to create a giant work of art.
Archaeological findings have unearthed the remains of the ancient Greek colony of Skylletion, later converted by the Romans in 120 BC Scolacium Excavations began in 1965, there were no walls of the Greek city, but the emergence of the whole area of the Archaeological Park of abundant ceramic material and coinage of the sixth century BC suggests the topographic overlap of the two cities.

At the entrance of Scolacium Archaeological Park contains the remains of the imposing Basilica Norman of the eleventh century AD dedicated to Santa Maria della Roccella, and today you can admire the exterior walls and apses decorated with Byzantine-Arab measures. On the right you get to the museum Antiquarium Roccelletta, where it is exposed to the material recovered from the ongoing excavations of the Archaeological Park. Much more significant however, are the remains of the walls of the city Scolacium, a route with explanatory panels, leads the visitor to the discovery of the Roman colony.

Towards the sea is the Roman forum, large rectangular area paved with square bricks and surrounded by arcades. At the edge of the square have already been dug a Caesareum, the Curia spa and a classroom. Within the forensic visible a small temple, a monumental fountain and a court. From this area comes from a large number of statues and portraits covering the period between the first and the third century AD exposed in the antiquarium.

Apart from the hole, resting on the hill stands the Theatre Scolacium built in two construction phases between the first and the second century AD The theater, built in the Greek style in the shelter of a hill, had a capacity of 3,500 spectators, but also had to be a center for meetings or other public building of the Roman Scolacium. From the scene of the theater, come three-headed portrait of a Julio-Claudian, Flavian, and a refer to the aristocratic of the city.
Also from the scene comes two large statues of robed in white marble, which are also on display in the Antiquarium of Roccelletta.

And 'here, in this place of the past, which in 2005 held the exhibition Intersections,
which brings the works of the best known contemporary sculptors to mingle with the ancient stones in the most evocative.

Fonte:sito regionale turismo