Highlights:

Discover the MarTa Archaeological Museum of Taranto
Visit the rooms with the golds of Canosa and Taranto
Explore the rooms with magnificent mosaics and terracotta vases

Tour details:

Have you already seen the Archaeological Museum of Naples and think you have seen everything? Nothing more wrong.
The archaeological museum MarTa of Taranto will amaze you and leave you breathless by the beauty of the precious artifacts displayed in a large exhibition dedicated to the Apulian Greece-Roman artefacts arranged according to the type of materials: marble sculptures, monumental tombs, soft stone sculptures , pottery of the necropolis, goldsmiths.
The guided tour will take you to visit the rooms dedicated to marble sculptures dating back to the Hellenistic age, another room with sculptures, mosaics and epigraphs from public and private buildings, including the carparo stone heads dating back to the Roman period .

Following will visit the rooms dedicated to the pottery from the necropolis, the pink clay vases with black figures, with illustrations of characters and scenes from mythology and athletics. The diamond point of the museum are the so-called Ori of Taranto (Golds of Taranto) which, in reality, are almost all of Canosa di Puglia town. It is a fantastic collection of objects of extraordinary workmanship from Great Greece, such as, for example, the diadem and silver case of Princess Opaka Sabaleidas of Canosa town.
The tour ends with a visit to the mosaics of the baths and villas of the Roman patricians, terracotta tools and the numismatic collection.