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Art and culture
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Within the borders of Cecina there are several and diversified centres of artistic and cultural attraction.
First of all we indicate the Museum of Life and Work of northern Maremma, where are kept lots of agricultural tools used in the centuries by local farmers. Of the same importance is also the Archaeological Civic Museum housed in the eighteenth-century Villa Guerrazzi, where we can admire precious antiques from the prehistory to Middle-Ages, looking as Museum of the ancient territory of Volterra in the communes of Cecina, Guardistallo, Riparbella, Montescudaio, Casale Marittimo and Bibbona.
Of particular value is the funerary urn of Montescudaio, decorated with scenes of a defunct banquet in the afterlife, grave and monumental systems, the small votive bronze of Bibbona's he-goat and the ruins of the ancient harbour of Vada Volterrana. Not less important is the Archeological park which keeps the remains of a grand Roman Villa built in the I° century b.C., and the ruins of an imperial age whose story seems to be articulated in different construction phases and following use modifications.
Very attractive is the visit of the underground water-cistern.
Furthermore, in a nineteenth-century building, inside the park, has been mounted the exhibition 'Privata Luxuria' (private luxury), which proposes a collection of archeological finds coming from the Villa excavations, witnessing the richness and the private luxury of the Roman family owner of the Villa, among which an Isis alabaster statuette of valuable manufacture.
Noteworthy is also the nineteenth-century Church of St. Joseph and Leopold, better known as Dome, as well as the St. Anthony Church in Collemezzano (XIX° century), which keeps within its walls a valuable seventeenth-century painting representing Our Lady of Sorrows and a precious crucifix of the XVIII° century. Worthy to be mentioned, at last, the Saints Peter and Paul Church, built in 1927 which witnesses through a proper memorial tablet, the passage in this place of the Pope John Paul II.
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Archaeological Park of San Vincenzino Roman Villa
Via C. Gìnori, 33
Phone +39 0586 260837
Fax 0586260837
Partially accessible to disable people, water-cistern not accessible
Archaeological Civic Museum
La Cinquantina Via Guerrazzi
Phone +39 0586 260837
Fax +39 0586 20837
Accessible to disabled people.
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