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SHORT DESCRIPTION: The little monetary treasure of Pagliuzza composed by 541 pieces of silver, is one of the most significant discoveries carried out in Sicily that can be traced back to the Roman-Republican Age. The coins were discovered in 1989 as a result of the agricultural works in an area a few kilometres South of […]

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The mosaic was found on Mount Riparato following a campaign of excavations conducted since 1975. It is an integral part of a large building, consisting of a variety of environments, including a thermal room whose system seems to date back to the third century AD.

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The funerary objects, dating from the third and second century. BC were found in the Southern necropolis of Monte Riparato, in the area of Saint Venere. The equipment includes some baked clay pots of different sizes, ointment jars, lamps, plates and anthropomorphic reproductions found inside the tombs.

SHORT DESCRIPTION: The Sicilian puppets based on the model of Palermo are built by the great craftsmen of the province of Palermo and Trapani from the 19th Century to the present day: armed and unarmed theatrical puppets of about 1 m (height) representing all the major subjects of the paladins of France: Orlando Rinaldo, Bradamante, […]