Tourist guide of Italy
Taranto

museums and galleries  buildings and historical squares  
 

In the interior part of the "heel of the boot" it is this city located seas, the Ionic one and the Adriatic one between two and that it shares their life between the port and the heavy industry.

 
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useums and galleries
 
  • Museo Nazionale
    • The museum is the maximum attraction of the city. Their foundation dates of 1890 although it has been restored in several occasions. In this Museum one of the best collections in Greek art of the world is, as well as Roman remains in very good state: craters protoitaliotas of Ceglie of the Field of the 400 to.C., a kore and a sarcophagus of the 500 to.C., aryballos of three heads, glasses with fish, feminine decorations as rings of gold with woman's head or a spiral bracelet with ram head, and the funeral beautiful trousseau, carried out in silver, found in the tomb of Gray.

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uildings and historical squares
 
  • Palazzi di Taranto
    • Taranto has green enough spaces in those that beautiful houses are erected as Villa Peripato, Palace Comunale, Castello built in 1840 by Fernando the Catholic, Duomo or Palace degli Uffici.