Il Museo Civico di Bovino is named after the surgeon Carlo Gaetano Nicastro, a local historian and Honorary Inspector for Antiquities and Art, who was instrumental in the recovery and preservation of numerous archaeological finds discovered in Bovino. The donation of his private collection, coming from excavation campaigns conducted in the area, became the founding act of the museum, which thus came into being in 1925 in the rooms of Palazzo Pisani. The building, with its main entrance on Piazza Marino Boffa, has a quadrilateral layout and shows an apparent homogeneity from the outside. Following a renovation and restoration intervention, it emerged that the current shape is the result of the aggregation of several building units put together in a way to meet the requirements of a barracks for the carabinieri. In any case, the oldest part consists of the ground floors whose entrances are located on Via Annunziata, Via San Francesco and Piazza Marino Boffa. The interiors feature rooms with finely crafted barrel vaults and a lunette pavilion in the main hall. The palace was recognized in 1987 as a protected work under law no. 1089 of ’39.
Information about the Carlo Gaetano Nicastro Civic Museum
Piazza Marino Boffa,
71023 Bovino (Foggia)
0881961460
Source: MIBACT
