Audiotour The Shadow of the Etruscans. Symbols of a civilization between plains and hills

A journey through time exploring the sacred and the underworld horizons to rebuild the threads of the Etruscan civilization that in ancient times spread on the north area of the Arno river, along the wide territory of the Florence-Prato-Pistoia, the Mugello / Val di Sieve and Montalbano plain.

Between stones, bronzes and stele, what emerges is a fascinating part of history full of suggestions, which reconstructs distant cultural roots of Tuscany through Prato and the epicenter of Gonfienti. To Gonfienti is dedicated the the first section of the exhibition "The Shadow of the Etruscans. Symbols of a civilization between plains and hills ": a special attention is paid to the universe of the sacred, deducible from the devotees figures in bronze, as well from the representation on an attic Kylix in red-figure also known as "cup Douris". The second section opens the horizon on the production of "Fiesole stones" that best characterize this vast territory from which emerged,during the Etruscan age, the center of Artimino, Fiesole and Gonfienti: steles and stones, decorated relief monuments that identify noble families coming from funerary contexts of the targeted area. An exhibition that reveals new aspects so far unknown of the archaeological past of Prato and Tuscany.