Castello di Melfi (Melfi) Basilicata - Italy🇮🇹/Potenza/4K/Maluphotography16/Cinematic/Aerial.Shots

Published 2023-05-14

We'll take you to beautiful Melfi and bring you a little closer to the Castello di Melfi and its treasures! But now to the facts:

The Castello di Melfi (Castle of Melfi) is one of the most important medieval fortresses in southern Italy. It is owned by the Italian State. Its foundation, as far as can be deduced from the extant remains, dates back to the Norman conquest of southern Italy. The castle has undergone considerable changes over time, most notably during the Angevin period and under the Aragonese crown.
During the reign of the Angevins and later also under the influence of the Renaissance, the castle underwent major changes. Today the National Archaeological Museum can be found in the rooms of the castle.

The whole building, founded directly on the rocky bank, clearly visible in the deposit on the second basement floor with a rocky outcrop, is characterized by a supporting structure made of local stones of medium and large dimensions, connected with cement mortar. Extensive consolidation measures carried out in recent years (2000s) following the damage caused by the 1980 earthquake have led to the use of concrete in the basement levels to support the structures above.

The floors of the exhibition rooms are all in terracotta, with the exception of the Sala Doria and the adjoining rooms, which have a marble gravel floor. The ceilings are coffered, vaulted or flat ceilings made of wood. The Sala Doria preserves an 18th-century boiserie with gilded details.

The museum exhibits a large collection of finds from the Vulture-Melfese area (Lavello, Banzi, Ruvo del Monte, Rionero, Ripacandida and the town of Melfi itself) relating to a chronological arc of the 7th century.

Of particular note are the numerous funerary objects, characterized for the most ancient phases by refined Daunian pottery with geometric decorations, bronze armour, shields, helmets and weapons, as well as the unique examples of floats from the Chiuchiari necropolis of Melfi; of precious ornaments made of silver, gold and amber and of vases and bronze tools of Greek and Etruscan production. Characteristic of the phase of the 4th-3rd century B.C. The ceramics of Magna Graecia with red figures and the monumental vases with polychrome decoration and with superimposed figures of Canosine production are mainly found in Lavello (the ancient Forentum).

On the ground floor, the Roman period is represented by the sarcophagus of Rapolla, an exceptional Roman-era sculptural work that identifies the entire municipality and is named after the place where it was found in 1856. The sarcophagus is a fine example of 2nd-century marble sculpture of Micro-Asiatic production. AD The lid depicts a sleeping female figure, while the case depicts various gods and heroes and the paraphrased story of the Trojan War.
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