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Antiquity is not only enclosed in museums, it is principally out in the open air, in sites, archaeological parks, like in monuments that since the Middle Ages are still alive and active within the fabric of urban and country life. Unfortunately it is difficult to “read” an ancient monument, especially if it is down to ruins, and understanding antiquity does not come easy to all: for this reason the Archeological Nights are organizing guided visits, walks and hikes led by specialists able to guide visitors to undiscovered sites in woods and in the open country side, as well as within the city and will explain how the monuments presented themselves in their original context and what function they held for the population and the environment that surrounded them.
Ancient ruins, in fact, are replete with information not only about the activities that went on within their interiors but also about their relationship with the surrounding environments and landscape: it is this that the walks organized by “Archaeological Nights” permit participants to get to know. Trails, ancient ways and oddities pertaining to the landscape, its flora and astronomy.
In Scarlino (GR), for example, the Center for Territorial Documentation and the Archaeological Museum of Portus Scabris - like in Radda, in Chianti (SI) the Archaeological Park of Poggio la Croce - offer the chance to get to know the constellations that today, like thousands of years ago, continue to mesmerize man and that in the past was responsible for the creation of myth and legends.
Along the Porta Bifora, the walls and the archaeological circuit of urban Cortona, or at Ossaia in Sepoltaglia along the footsteps of Hannibal by Cortona (AR), or in the Val d'Afra among prehistory, art, environment and ancient flavors of the antiquity of Sansepolcro (AR), or between Dicomano (FI) and the hill of San Martino a Frascole with its Etruscan edifice; walking through the hamlet of Sovana (GR) and its treasures, or by foot or train in the mines of the Archeomineral Park of Saint Silvester in Campiglia Marittima (LI); among the paths and botanical gardens along the Road of the Bridges of the Moon in Mammiano by San Marcello Pistoiese (PT); in the woods and the grottos of Mount Cetona (SI); among the Etruscan necropolises of Scarna or in the lands of geothermal energy of vitriol in Radicondoli (SI); among the roads cut into tufa, the mills, and the Etruscan necropolises at Sarteano (SI).
These places and many others are offered for you to journey through - by day and by night - on long walks or short, to take a journey back in time through history.
Ancient ruins, in fact, are replete with information not only about the activities that went on within their interiors but also about their relationship with the surrounding environments and landscape: it is this that the walks organized by “Archaeological Nights” permit participants to get to know. Trails, ancient ways and oddities pertaining to the landscape, its flora and astronomy.
In Scarlino (GR), for example, the Center for Territorial Documentation and the Archaeological Museum of Portus Scabris - like in Radda, in Chianti (SI) the Archaeological Park of Poggio la Croce - offer the chance to get to know the constellations that today, like thousands of years ago, continue to mesmerize man and that in the past was responsible for the creation of myth and legends.
Along the Porta Bifora, the walls and the archaeological circuit of urban Cortona, or at Ossaia in Sepoltaglia along the footsteps of Hannibal by Cortona (AR), or in the Val d'Afra among prehistory, art, environment and ancient flavors of the antiquity of Sansepolcro (AR), or between Dicomano (FI) and the hill of San Martino a Frascole with its Etruscan edifice; walking through the hamlet of Sovana (GR) and its treasures, or by foot or train in the mines of the Archeomineral Park of Saint Silvester in Campiglia Marittima (LI); among the paths and botanical gardens along the Road of the Bridges of the Moon in Mammiano by San Marcello Pistoiese (PT); in the woods and the grottos of Mount Cetona (SI); among the Etruscan necropolises of Scarna or in the lands of geothermal energy of vitriol in Radicondoli (SI); among the roads cut into tufa, the mills, and the Etruscan necropolises at Sarteano (SI).
These places and many others are offered for you to journey through - by day and by night - on long walks or short, to take a journey back in time through history.
