Municipal Antiquarium

The civic collection, set up in 2001, is housed on the upper floor of the medieval building which was the first seat of the Municipality and then housed the municipal theater. The exhibition takes place in two rooms: the first introduces the history of the area with the help of ancient maps, maps and views (from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century), a selection of objects from the Roman age to the modern age and two fragments of a Dantesque codex dating back to the 14th century; the second exposes in chronological sequence ancient and recent findings that document, from prehistory to the modern age, the life of an area whose centrality is given, rather than by the size and wealth of the settlement, by the progressive organization of the traffic axes that intersect here. In addition to isolated finds, materials from the area of ​​Aja della Croce are exposed, where the ancient settlement was identified, immediately upstream of the church of San Cristoforo, on the rocky spur overlooking the valley below. In this area, excavations carried out several times between the mid-nineteenth and the mid-twentieth century have identified remains of a Roman house with mosaic floors and a cistern, datable to the first century BC. Testimonies of an older building (columns, capitals) were found inside the cistern. Among these we note an important inscription in the Umbrian language, which documents the cult of the goddess Cupra.