In the former Carmelite monastery of Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi, annexed to the Church of San Vito Martire, the Museum of Preclassical Civilizations of the Southern Murgia has been opened.
In this Museum there is a large room where the skeleton of a twenty-year-old woman is exhibited, who preserved the remains of a fetus in her womb, lived during the Paleolithic (25,000 years ago) and was found in the cave of Santa Maria di Agnano.
During the summer season, the Agnano Natural Archaeological Park is open, with the possibility of guided tours. Also recommended is a visit, in a suggestive ravine, to the romantic small sanctuary of San Biagio in Rialbo, embedded in the rocky wall with a picturesque facade and remains of 12th-century Byzantine-style frescoes.
Information about the Civic Museum of Preclassical Civilizations of the Southern Murgia
Via Cattedrale, 15
72017 Ostuni (Brindisi)
0831336383
museo.ostuni@libero.it
www.urpcomunediostuni.it
Source: MIBACT
