Automatically translated from Italian.
The Aragonese Castle of Castro houses the civic museum named after speleologist Antonio Lazzari, where you can admire an archaeological collection.
In the heart of Castro, the Aragonese Castle is home to the Civic Museum “Antonio Lazzari”. A rich archaeological collection is displayed in the halls of the manor, with artifacts from excavations carried out in the area.
In the place where ancient Castrum Minervae once stood, mentioned by Virgil in the Aeneid, there was a temple dedicated to Minerva. In addition to the exhibition of artifacts, there is a model in the buttress bastion that reproduces the historic center of Castro during the Roman period.
The museum is named after speleologist Antonio Lazzari, one of the founders of the Salentine Speleological Group in 1955.
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