• the picenes
• the picenes in matelica
• the exhibition itinerary

• the finaguerra palace
• the visit of the museum
• the educational activities

• the city
• the province
• the region

• the city
• events and shopping
• accommodation facilities

 

The province

The archaeological exhibition “Power and Magnificence. The ancient Picene in Matelica”, which concerns the latest researches on the settlements and necropolises in Matelica’s territory, has been an opportunity of reflecting upon the whole archaeological heritage in Macerata’s Province.
The territory of Macerata’s Province, and generally speaking the territory of Marches, which are situated facing the Adriatic sea, always had cultural relations with East Europe, as well as, thanks their conformation, characterized by the presence of transverse valleys reaching the Apennine passes, played a leading role as communication route towards the Tyrrhenian regions, connecting the North to the South of the Italian Peninsula. Over the millennia, from the Palaeolithic to the Roman age, thanks to the peculiarity of this territory, a close and structured net of villages and necropolises, which today represents the archaeological heritage in Macerata’s Province, rose and developed in the whole area, influencing and contributing the landscape and the present-day settlement. A net of archaeological parks, sites and museums which, on the occasion of the inauguration of the archaeological exhibition, will open their doors not only for attentive visitors, but also for those who are more cursory, coordinating their opening hours with the visiting hours of main exhibition event in Matelica, as well as organizing scientific and promoting initiatives.
The Museums of Cingoli, Recanati and Camerino, with their collection dating back to the Prehistory and to the Iron Age, will offer a worthy introduction to the Matelica’s extraordinary collection, whilst, through a tour of the Museum of San Severino Marche and Tolentino, visitors will picture the Orientalizing period, till the archaism and the following Picene civilization, in details and out of the exhibition context. Perhaps the Roman age is the historical period which, thanks to the foundation of the towns, outlined more the Macerata’s archaeological landscape; so visitors, besides a tour of the Museums of Treia, Pollenza and the aforesaid San Severino Marche, will enjoy a trail in the archaeological parks and sites, visiting the ancient Ricina with its magnificent theatre (Macerata), Serravalle di Chienti (Plestia), San Severino Marche (Septempeda), or the Roman settlement in Portorecanti (Potentia), and finish their stay in Urbisaglia, where the Museum and the archaeological Park known as Urbs Salvia offer them a nearly complete and unique documentation, in Central Italy, of typically Roman town quarters and public monuments.