The Museum of the Long Rivers houses mainly archaeological objects deriving from researches and gatherings that took place in different years in central and northern Polesine.
As for the Bronze age, there are objects deriving from recent excavations (Larda di Gavello and Zanforlina di Pontecchio) and part of the surface and excavation gathering held in Frattesina (built-up area and necropolis). As for the Iron age (V cen. B.C.) there are the objects of Balone, near Rovigo (necropolis and built-up area), of S. Cassiano (built-up area) and items found in surface research in Gavello.
There are considerable finds of the Roman age, most of them found in ten years of excavations (1990-2000) in Gaiba and Ficarolo. The National Archaeological Museum of Adria has recently given us objects found in northern Polesine at the beginning of the last century.
Besides there is a considerable collection of pieces of pottery that may be dated between XIV and XVIII cen.. They are the fruit of researches that have been taking place since 1965 and come from the territories of central and northern Polesine and from the town of Rovigo.
The current exposition's path unfolds chronologically along scenographic settings that reconstruct the human and environmental evolution of the Polesine, from the settlements of the Bronze Age in Canàr di Castelnovo Bariano, Larda di Gavello and especially in Frattesina di Fratta Polesine, to those of the Iron Age, with the significant reality of the inner-land of Adria in the VI-V century B.C. (the rural settlement of S. Cassiano of Crespino, the Etrusco-Padanian Necropolis of Balone near Rovigo, the evidences of the land of Gavello), to those from the Roman times, with the reconstruction of the anthropization frame of the Polesine between the II century B.C. and the II century A.D.
The visitor will be familiar with religious, social and home life of the most ancient ages of Polesine, and will overview coeval Italian and European cultures.
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