Guided tour of the Archaeology Museum and the Aleria site

Name: Visita comentada del museo de arqueología y del sitio de Aleria
Start: 2022-09-18T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Site antique d'Aleria

family discovery of the museum and the site of Aleria

Domingo 18 septiembre 2022, 10:00Passed

Herramientas de registro

0495461092 0683361044

Pascal LEMAITRE CTC 2012

Come discover the site with your family and learn more about the daily life of the Romans. The guided tours will be adapted, enriched with comments and exchanges for a total immersion in the heart of the Roman city.

About the location

Site antique d'Aleria

Hameau du Fort, 20270 Aléria

Haute-Corse
Corse

Aleria romaine lettuce(steelyard) establishes(constitutes) in the 1st century before our era, following the first colonisation operated by Sylla, from 81 av(avenues). J-C. The ruins of the city were described for the first time, precisely, by Prosper Mérimée in 1840 after its journey of inspection in Corsica of 1839\. From 1955 till 1958, the archaeologists Jean Jehasse and Jean-Paul butcher begin(undertake) the first important excavations(searches) of the site. They bring out(loosen) Forum and part(party) of the Roman town(conglomeration). The main visible(obvious) monuments today articulate(are expressed) around a forum lined with two covered porticoes(gantries) which protected the facades of shops and of houses. This space includes also two temples, two thermal baths and more than ten tanks. credits: F. Allegrini-Simonetti / CTC 2011