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Catanzaro Museums and Art Galleries Museo Santa Barbara  MuSaBa (Museo Santa Barbara) is located in the heart of Calabria, in Italy's southernmost mainland province, Reggio Calabria. Picturesquely sited in the Torbido River valley near the village of Mammola, MuSaBa is ten kilometres uphill from the Ionian Sea. MuSaBa's position is extremely panoramic and can be reached directly by the Ionio-Tirreno highway. Fantastic legends envelop the history of this remote region in Italy, from the Homeric monsters Scylla and Charybdis to the Norman tales of Fata Morgana. A succession of peoples and civilizations (Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Swabians and Aragonese), fused with the proto-italic inhabitants and left their imprint on local customs and traditions as well as upon artistic and architectural styles. The geographic isolation of this region, broken only with the development of modern transportation links in recent years, has preserved rich cultural and archaeological patrimony from as far back as the Neolithic period. Museum Civico and Pinacoteca Pretiana To Mattia Priests (Taverna 1613- Malta 1699), is dedicated third knows it of the field To of the museum. Beyond to this there are: it knows it "Piterà  Quattromani" in which the mobilio is exposed of the ancient pharmacy of Taverna, operates of intagliatori carpenters of century XIX.; the "Gregorio Priests" with six paintings two of which of the artist from which he knows it takes it the name. In the quarter he knows dictates it "of the lignea art" are exposed lignee sculptures policrome of the Xvii-xviii-xix centuries between which the "Saint Bonaventura" of Mark Santillo and others twelve of the "Bottega of the Sarnelli"mentre four paintings of ignoti provincial artists of XVII the Dominican century fill up know it it of the continuation from know it" Cua "in which they can themselves be admired ritratti ottocenteschi of Giuseppe Cua, doctor of Queen Madre of the Borboni and Antonio Cua, mathematician and engineer of the sanctuary of Pompei; he knows it "of the serica art" with woven and sacred vestments he realizes from handicraftsmen of the Xvii-xviii-xix century to you and, he knows it it "of the designs and the press" that expose to a rarest representing design of the Calabrian Cavalier the "Apoteosi "of Saint Peter Celestino. The field To is concluded from knows it multimediale dedicated to the theologian and cosmografo "Gian Lorenzo Anania", lived to Taverna in XVI the century, destined to become the Multimediale Museum of the City of Taverna.La before knows it of the field called B "Umberto Boccioni" accommodates the works of artists cyclical calabrians engages to you in the contemporary search visual who have found in the Civic Museum of Taverna a place of reference, comparison and documentation of just the job. Greek Antonino House-Museum  The house laughed them to the second half of the the 16 1700's and here nacque june 1819 Greek Antonino, insigne patriot and calabrian giurista let alone protagonist of the history of the Renaissance of I took it catanzarese. Greek palace is the first House-Museum of the Calabria for will of one of last eredi of Antonino that is the Greek Giovanni, that rural civilization has given back to the community objects meant you of one today passing, antichi furnish, rare books and historical document infinity of the family. The Palace is developed on two plans and seminterrato.Il slowly a earth comprises an room-income where once the owner received in delivery the commodities and the excise tax of the renters. The kitchen, rich equipped, conserve the original structure with sideboards in poor art executed from local craftsmen and an ancient furnace. To the advanced plan, in the two bedrooms and the large one it knows it that it divides to them can be admired the objects, the pictures, the furnitures that conserve, from years, the same position, in one singular scene and fascinating. Museum of the civilization peasant and craftsman of Serrastretta E' be inaugurated from the mayor Antonio Molinaro and contains, between the other things, a grinder of the olives, a series of tools peasants of Serrastretta and  a flour mill to water used until the years ' 60.Particolare are "tilaru" (the chassis) described in its leave with the local terms therefore "sugliu" are the wood cylinder on which the thread of warp is wrapped and then "lizzu" through which the threads of the warp pass, the "piettine" that it pushes after every last of the shuttle the weft threads one against the other second the compactness of the established woven one, the "shuttle" that transports the thread of weft, "pedarula" that it is an element composed from eight the pedals use to you in different number, to second the executed job, the auto body that serves to turn "u sugliu" and "tisa" used in order to hold straight the stoffa Diocesano museum of sacred art  The Museum is prepared for will of the archbishop, S. And Monsignor Antonio Cantisani "for a requirement of fidelity to mine must of Bishop and like gesture of love to the city of Catanzaro. In the Museum we read much history of our community, we discover our roots, we take control that cultural identity that then constitutes the push for a more and more incisive service in the territory in which this Church s' it incarnates ". They are the present words of His Excellency held from the university professor Eduardo Filippo for the preparation of the museum. A historical-religious distance is indicated from graphical and didascalici elements that illustrate with clarity the ancient distance of the Diocese of Catanzaro-Squillace and its community. Some visual-architectonic ends concur to little observe in time the creative and artistic production of the handicraftsmen and the southern artists who have marked the sacred art in the meridione. Save time, money and stress! 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