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Locri National Archaeological Museum and Park

The National Archaeological Park of Locri, one of the largest in Calabria, is located along the SS 106 "Jonica" about 5 km from today's city of Locri, on the site of the Magna Graecia colony of Lokroi Epizephyroi. In the Park area there are two exhibitions: the National Archaeological Museum, inaugurated in 1971 with the name of "Antiquarium of Locri" and declared a national museum in 1998, dedicated to the narration of the life of Locri in the Greek period, and the museum complex Casino Macrì, which preserves the testimonies attributable to the Roman and late-ancient times. The protohistoric age of Locri is documented in the "Museum of the territory" of Palazzo Teotino Nieddu del Rio, in the center of Locri, inaugurated in 2018. Four itineraries are offered to the public. The first starts from the Museum of the Greek polis and crosses the eastern and northern sectors with sections of the walls, two defensive towers, one of the access gates to the city, the sanctuary of Tesmophorion and the sacred area of Marasà. A second path leads the visitor to the southern sector, where the sacred area dedicated to Zeus saettante insists, the Portuense Gate with a mighty wall structure that can be connected to a port reality, further sections of the walls, the House of the Lions with the Sacello dedicated to Aphrodite and the Gate of Aphrodite, the residential-handicraft district of Centocamere and the so-called U-shaped Stoà. A third route starts from the Centocamere district and reaches the area of Petrara, with the remains of the probable Forum and a thermal building. In the area there is the Casino Macrì museum complex, which consists of a nineteenth-century farmhouse and two farmhouses built on the remains of a private Roman spa complex. The museum of Roman Locri has been set up on the second floor of the main building. Among the artifacts on display, the beautiful marble portrait-statue of the "Togato" from the area of the forum, the Breccia of Aleppo, one of the few examples of large artifacts made with this rare marble from the island of Chios should be noted. , and the golden bract with the Adoration of the Magi belonging to a reliquary of the seventh century AD A fourth path leads the visitor to Dromo, with a stretch of the western wall, and to Pirettina, where the Greek-Roman Theater is located . Particular attention is paid to younger visitors with the Children's Museum, an educational path aimed at encouraging the use of the historical and archaeological heritage of Locri to an audience of school age.

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Address

Strada Statale 106 Jonica
89044 Locri

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