Museums and archaeology in Salerno recount the thousand-year history of the territory through artefacts spanning from prehistory to the Roman era, housed in a network of institutions spread across the city. From the Provincial Archaeological Museum, hosted in the former monastery of San Benedetto and dominated by the famous bronze head of Apollo, to civic and diocesan museums and the routes dedicated to the Etruscan-Samnite sites of Fratte, each exhibition offers an immersive journey through everyday objects, funerary goods, sculptures and the evidence of ancient civilisations in the Salerno area.
Museums and Archaeology
Etruscan-Sannitic Archaeological Area of Fratte
Ancient Salerno: between Etruscan and RomansThe Etruscan-Sannitic necropolis of Fratte is the testimony of the oldest past of the city of Salerno. The archaeological site…
