Well yes, dear friends of COMMA 2 who live in Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio: did you know that to see the finds of the Etruscan settlements further south you have to come here to Pontecagnano, in the province of Salerno? We went back to see the museum that collects the archaeological finds of about 9000 burials discovered in the last 50 years in the area of the current city of Pontecagnano; we are talking about the National Archaeological Museum of Pontecagnano (MAP) (*) (http://www.polomusealecampania.beniculturali.it/index.php/il-museo-pontecagnano), dedicated to the frontier Etruscans and located on the first floor of this modern building:
The building is fully accessible for the physically disabled; the lift that leads to the first floor allows you to go up even with the wheel installed on the chair, while the services are on the ground floor. To better describe the criteria with which the exhibition of the finds is organized, let's take the same presentation as the guide of the museum written by Dr. Anna Imponale, director of the Polo Museale della Campania and Luigina Tomay, director of the National Archaeological Museum of Pontecagnano: A long story - from the Etruscan-Villanovan settlement to the Roman foundation of Picentia in 268 BC. - unfolds through the exhibition of exceptional objects that show the early contacts with Etruria, Greece and the East. It should be added only that there are also finds dating back to prehistoric times, precisely to the Neolithic, the Iron Age and the Copper Age. So let's start taking a look at the images we took in the MAP:
A setting that reproduces a bloody sacrifice of animals:
A child's grave:
A setting that reproduces a symposium and libation scene, inspired by an architectural cladding slab of the Etruscan palace of Poggio Civitate (Murlo, SI):
The Princely Tomb 928, located in the center of the hall: it is a pity that a ramp is missing to allow disabled people to get on the platform to admire it:
The reconstruction of the funeral clothing of the Tomb of the Princess:
And after visiting the Pontecagnano Museum we took a nice walk in Triride on the Salerno seafront, on that splendid sunny day of January 30th; the car park with spaces reserved for the disabled is located at the tourist port Masuccio Salernitano. Let's see some photos:
And this Ferris wheel is accessible to the physically disabled; we didn't test it because it was closed.
For lunch we enjoyed having a romantic snack on a bench in the sun, looking at the sea; otherwise the restaurant with our requirements is this (it will reopen on February 10): Embarcadero (*) Lungomare Trieste, Salerno 089 231372 https://embarcaderosalerno.it (*) symbol indicating the presence of toilets equipped for the disabled