Museo della preistoria della Tuscia e della Rocca Farnese

The museum offers the opportunity to make a journey through time beginning with prehistory, continues in the Middle Ages until modern times. prehistoric section: in the first section there are finds from the Tuscia, supplemented by an educational system that analyzes the issues of central Italy prehistory, from the Lower Paleolithic (ca. 500,000 years ago) to the early Iron Age (2900 years ago ca. ) and tells the environmental transformations, cultural and socio-economic of the prehistoric Tuscia. Among the exhibits are choppers, bifaces, scrapers, retouched tips, engraved pebbles and from the Neolithic period onwards ceramic elements. A special space is reserved for exhibits of Lake Mezzano from the Bronze Age. Etruscan collection: Here is exhibited the collection donated by the Bishop Mon. Giovanni D'Ascenzi. The precious findings are broken down by areas of origin (especially Cerveteri and Vulci). There are Villanovan ceramics, Attic and Corinthian, Phoenician glass paste, bronze and bone and terracotta figurines. Roman collection: the chronological connection path between Prehistory and the Middle Ages is completed in this room, which displays finds from the Roman Period mainly from the territory of Valentano. Noteworthy among them coins, grindstones, architectural elements. Renaissance and modern medieval section: this part of the museum revolves around the events of the Farnese Rocca and tells development of the territory of Valentano High Middle Ages (VII sec.) to the present day. Particular attention is devoted to the history of the Farnese from '300 to' 600, the maximum period splendor of Castro Duchy. The first showcase is devoted to the Lombards finds, including two saxophones (swords) iron. In the other window displays ceramics from the findings in the area of ​​the fortress, built by medieval artefacts, Renaissance and the territory of Valentano. In one of throw inside the fortress it was found the nuptial plate with Farnese / Orsini coat of arms, made on the occasion of the wedding of Pier Luigi Farnese and Gerolama Orsini (1519).