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Museo Archeologico Provinciale Ribezzo
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MUSEUM
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( 0831 56 55 08; Piazza del Duomo 8; 9.30am-1.30pm Tue-Sat & 3.30-6.30pm Tue, Thu & Sat)
This
superb museum covers several floors with well-documented exhibits (in English) includ-
ing some 3000 bronze sculptures and fragments in Hellenistic Greek style. There are also
terracotta figurines from the 7th century, underwater archaeological finds, and Roman
statues and heads (not always together).
Chiesa di Santa Maria del Casale
( 0831 41 85 45; Via Ruggero de Simone; 8am-8pm)
Located 4km north of town towards the air-
port, this church was built by Prince Philip of Taranto around 1300. The church mixes up
Puglian Romanesque, Gothic and Byzantine styles, with a Byzantine banquet of interior
frescoes. The immense
Last Judgement
on the entrance wall, full of blood and thunder, is
the work of Rinaldo di Taranto.
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Roman Column
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