Museo dell'Abruzzo Bizantino ed Altomedievale

The Byzantine and early medieval Abruzzo Museum is located in Crecchio in the province of Chieti, is located in the Ducal Castle and exhibits objects found in archaeological excavations conducted by the Archaeological Superintendence of Abruzzo in collaboration with archaeologists Crecchio, in a Roman villa -bizantina at the resort of Vassarella in the municipality of Crecchio, between 1988 and 1991. In particular it collects everyday objects like bowls, oil lamps, amphorae, ceramics called "type Crecchio", bronze pottery and precious wooden artifacts. The numerous finds of the villa, which bear witness to a dense network of trade between the Byzantine Abruzzo and the East, especially Egypt Coptic, made it possible to reconstruct the historical events of Abruzzo frentano at the time of the Byzantine rule, between the sixth and seventh centuries AD To enrich the exhibition are added exhibits from various coastal towns of Abruzzo region, including the tabula patronatus of 383 AD, which was found near San Salvo (Chieti), which attests to the contribution to the noble Aurelio Evagrio Honorius the patronage of the city of Cluviae (Laroma-Casoli Plan). The Greek-Gothic war that devastated the Abruzzo region in the winter of 537-538 A.D. It is documented by a number of weapons, including a helmet ostrogoto gilded copper and iron, found in the locality Saint Lucia, at Torricella. The Carlo Alberto Fraracci room displays an Etruscan collection donated in 1995 by Archeoclub Crecchio Fraracci family. July 20, 2007 was inaugurated a new section of the museum dedicated to the precious wooden remains recovered in the cistern of the Roman-Byzantine villa of Casino Vezzani-Vassarella.