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Archaeological Civic Museum
Marciana - Island of Elba, via del Pretorio, 66
Tel. 0565/901215 (City hall)
Open hours 9.30 a.m. -12.30 a.m. 6.00 p.m. - 11.00 p.m.
Closed in winter
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In the year 1968 the museum was created in the
old administrative palace. The museum documents archeologische finds
which comes mainly from the central and eastern part of the island:
from largest interests are the materials which were found in the
grave cave by San Giuseppe in Rio Marina, and the finds of
settlement excavations at the Monte the Castello in Procchio.
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the plant in order to visit the several rooms of the museum.
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| Relict
of Procchio (150-200 b.Cr.)
Wine amphora from the Gallia |
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HALL I:
FROM THE PREISTORIA TO THE ARCHAIC ETRUSCAN AGE
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In the first hall are exposed the more ancient material
recovered in the prehistoric stations and the sites of archaic protostoric
and Etruscan age.
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HALL II:
ESTRUCAN FORTRESS OF MONTE CASTELLO |
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The second hall is dedicated to the estruscan
fortress of the Monte Castelo at Procchio. The fortress belonged
to a system been born to defense of the iron and bloomed between
V and III-II cent. b. Cr.
On the heights of the island of Elba in order to control "on
sight" the territory of the island and the arm of sea that
separates it from the continent. The takeover has been object of
a regular archaeological surveying, begun to the end of the years
'70. The exposition, beyond to the archaeological reperts, it comprises
one chosen of relative the graphical documentation to the campaign
of diggings of 1977.
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HALL III:
ROMAN AGE : THE GRANITE AND THE ELBANIAN MARBLE |
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In the third hall the civic collection is constituted
from some instruments it uses in the hollow ones of stone.
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HALL IV:
THE RELICTS OF PROCCHIO |
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The fourth hall introduces some materials recovered
in waters of the Gulf of Procchio and coming from from two various
contexts: a relict one of datable roman aged to the II cent. B.
Cr. and a cargo vessel sunk with its cargo to the end of the '
700.
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