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Museum of Aidone

Open every day - Tel. 0935/87307 from 8,00 to18,30 Admission € 3,10 (Full) € 1,55 (Half-price)

Going trough Aidone’s streets you’ll easily find the old capuchins monastery (XVII SEC), seat of the archeological museum. There you’ll be able to begin to know Morgantina, the mytical town rised a thousand years before Christ, in the spot where it already existed a village going back to the first age of bronze; in those hills which now are called” cittadella and orlando’s greenhouse. In one of the cloister sides you find the first room, with its collection of architectonic ornaments which gave the opportunity to establish the different ages of the primitives settlings. You can examine the ceramics and its ornaments, the earthenwares in the form of horn and the most old stone and bone utensils. The vases, on the contrary, come from the morgets, the founders of Morgantina. Now you can go upstairs, and you’ll find yourselves in the citadel’s room, where you’ll be able to admire the proof of the Hellenic presence in Morgantina, around 550 a.c.

There we find shutters in terracotta from a gorgonic mask, leonine and with a menade head, which decorated the outside of the buildings and, besides, the fragments of some terracotta statues which had a votive function . In the serra orlando’s room you’ll come back to the ages near to the third century before Christ. It’s the most magnificient age of the town that produced a flourishing wave of religious art, as it witnesses the Persefone’s bust in terracotta and the ex-votos of a culture which venerated Demetra ,Persefone, Afrodite and Hermes. It’s extraordinary the working of the cup nicknamed “ MEGARESE” that comes from a necropolis of the same age on the slope to the south of serra orlando and very delicated the features of a little head of Persefone with diadem. In the fourth and fifth room, at the lower floor, there is a very rich exibition of the daily life objects subdivided for subjects.