The work of rationalizing cultural venues in the Marche region continues. In fact, a new challenge opens up for the enhancement of the region's cultural heritage: as of a few days ago, the Roman Amphitheater of Ancona has joined the rich constellation spread throughout the country of Italian Museums, as a new place of culture part of the Marche National Museums Regional Directorate headed by Luigi Gallo, and will already be open to visitors from mid-April next year. The possibility of combining the National Archaeological Museum of the Marches and the Amphitheater will allow visitors to fully immerse themselves in the fascination of the ancient world, thanks to a "dialogue" between content and container of the place of culture. The goal of the Museums Directorate is to develop a program of public openings of the Amphitheater starting from mid-April on a periodic weekly basis, to ensure the possibility of enjoying the most important archaeological area of the regional capital not only on extraordinary days, but during the entire tourist season. The Roman Amphitheater restores to Ancona's citizens and visitors a glimpse of a crucial period in the Doric city's history. Located a short distance from the National Archaeological Museum of Le Marche in Palazzo Ferretti, Ancona's Amphitheater is a symbolic site of the Marche capital, set in the ancient heart of the old town overlooking the sea, on the cliff that makes the coastline of this part of the Adriatic unique. The Roman Amphitheater also represents an environment in which Ancona's history has gradually stratified, from the Hellenistic structures to the great spectacle building of the imperial age, the later convent to the Santa Palazia prison, destroyed after the great earthquake of 1972.
|