Description
The Circuito Urbano Museum of Cascia provides services, visits, educational activities and thematic workshops, special openings on request. The Church of Sant`Antonio Abate is part together with the Palazzo Santi Urban Museum of the Circuit of Cascia: only 1 ticket, 2 museums to discover.
The Church of Sant`Antonio Abate was built at the end of the fourteenth century probably on a settlement of Benedictine monastic cells for which you have documentation from 1025. The Church of Sant`Antonio Abate holds two important fresco cycles: the cycle of frescoes in the presbytery which has as its subject scenes from the life of Sant`Antonio, to whom the church is dedicated, built at the end of the fourteenth century by a team of painters identified under the collective name of the Master of the Dormition of Terni, the cycle of frescoes in the choir of nuns, with scenes from the Passion of Christ, the work of the Tuscan painter Nicola da Siena, who signed his work dating 1461. In the choir is also the monumental wooden sculpture of "Tobia e l`Angelo", the second half of the fifteenth century, attributed to the workshop of Domenico Indivini. To the inside of the church choir on the counter, is placed an important organ built in 1630 by organ builder Luca Neri from Leonessa.
The Museum, housed in the rooms of the seventeenth century Palazzo Santi houses a collection of archaeological objects dating from the eighth century B.C. onwards, evidence of the origins of the early centuries of history and of the earliest settlements of this land, a valuable collection of wooden sculptures and stone of sacred subjects dating from the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and an art gallery reflection of the glory of the medieval past, Renaissance and Mannerist ancient City of Cascia. Coats of arms of the Popes, the mayor and knights, arranged throughout the museum bear witness to the prestige of Cascia in the late Middle Ages.
PALAZZO SANTI - Via Gaetano Palombi
CHURCH OF S. ANTONIO - Via S. Antonio
Tel.: 0743/751010 - fax: 0743/753009
Openings:
17th March 30th April
10.30 am - 1 pm / 3 pm - 6 pm
Saturdays, Sundays and Festivities
May-July/1st-16th September
10.30 am - 1 pm / 3 pm - 6 pm
Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays,
Festivities and 21 st – 22nd May
August
10.30 am - 1 pm / 3 pm - 6 pm
Everyday
17th September - 4th November
10.30am - 1pm / 3 pm - 6 pm
Saturdays, Sundays, during the Saffron Festival and 1st November
24th December, 6 th January
10.30 am - 1 pm / 3 pm - 6 pm
(closed 25th December 1 January)
At Cascia`s museums you can book guided tours, activities for school classes as well thematic workshops, special openings on request.
