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The Diocesan Museum of Penne

The Patron Saint of Penne is celebrated on May 7

"The importance of a city is measured by the number of monuments, palaces and, above all, the fountains in its possession," I I remember like it was yesterday heard this phrase in school, probably during a history lesson.

If we adopt this policy for a city such as pens, we would have a vague idea of \u200b\u200bthe importance that this city was in centuries past.

Part of this past is preserved in the Diocesan Museum Pens .

The Diocesan Museum is placed exactly right on the premises of the cathedral dedicated to Saint Mary of the Angels and St. Maximus, and it is the salt of the lower part of the crypt of the Cathedral where there are dating from the eighth century frescoes painted between the thirteenth and fourteenth century.

The Museum was founded in 1791 and is managed by ' Archdiocese of Pescara-Penne and its building dates back to the early Middle Ages, even though during the twelfth century has been expanded and modified to then be enriched in the seventeenth century, when it suffered a strong influence of the Baroque model, with the second World War, it was destroyed but there was a great interest in reconstructing the canons of the medieval architecture that had characterized earlier and returned to be observed as a result of the collapses, and so we tried to enrich it again early Christian and early medieval elements.

Penne was subject to changes within the different historical phases, for example, was involved in the social war of 89 BC when it became a Roman town in the tribe Quirina inserted, then the Franks gained the title of county but only with the greatness of Charlemagne was able to acquire bishopric. Under the strong policy of expansion of the Aragonese in 1436 the city Penne had a serious confrontation with the city of L'Aquila even managed to encircle and plunder with the help of a family member of Caldora, Jacopo.

was Charles V to then assign it as a dowry to Alessandro de 'Medici and later, more precisely in 1538 to Margarita of Austria, who love the city of Penne even decided to make capital of his state in Abruzzo Farnese, even with the Bourbons became part of the Kingdom of Naples.

The presence of pens in history is evidenced by the magnitude of artifacts, dating back to different eras, hosted in his Diocesan Museum.

The Diocesan Museum of Penne consists of two sections located on different floors: the lower portion of the museum is mainly associated with medieval times, so you can find architecture, sculpture, frescoes dating to this period, while the second floor, which is the upper one, is divided into rooms that are in turn classified by themes, such as jewelry, wooden sculpture, the art gallery and more.

The content Muser can be summarized as follows: epigraphy, the Archaeology lapidarium vestina, the Roman section and the most "recent" medieval collection "Leopardi" concentrated mainly pre-Christian archeology, as well as painting and sculpture sacred scrolls accompanied by codes, as well as purely antiphonaries linked to the Cathedral Chapter, and finally there are sacred objects such as ornamental but also liturgical or sacred silverware such elegant objects worship.

One of the pieces that will certainly catch the attention of visitors is a bas-relief depicting a gladiator eet the that primarily affects the dynamism of the images as well as for the great description.

Another important piece is the fifteenth forged silver cross from the Collegiate San Giovanni Evangelista and used in the past for processions.

A second room is dedicated to the patron saint of San Massimo Pens, welcomes its wooden bust of the saint created by a Neapolitan artist called Giuseppe Sammartino, dating from the seventeenth century, very interesting especially in the rendering: the saint was depicted in the act of supporting the city's image, as if to further emphasize its importance. Finely drawn is the Madonna and Child by Silvestro dell'Aquila perhaps, of the fifteenth century, but in wood color, but many attribute to a local author that you do not know the name.

in the room instead of the scrolls are on display in particular very old documents that give space to reflection on what has been important throughout history Pens, between documents and of course there are also antiphons that come directly from the church Convent of San Domenico.

in the building adjacent to the former workshop and store the other hand there are the famous library of the diocese that welcomes manuscripts of some importance which the chain code, so called because it bound with a chain, which is a Collection of the Statutes of the city, divided into five books, four in Latin, one in Italian and is just an election of city magistrates, of civil and criminal legal systems of different types such as parties, hygiene, food and supplies and then the related harm to the city, we can say that the actual code or a review Statutes from the Middle Ages.

Address and Opening of the Diocesan Museum of Penne :

Piazza Duomo - Pens, Tel 085 8210525
Summer hours: Tue to Fri 9:00 to 13:30 / Sat & Sun 10.00-13.00 16:00 to 19:00
Winter hours: Tue to Fri 9:00 to 13:30 / Sat 10:00 to 13:00 and 15:00 to 18:00 / Sun 10:00 to 13:00 Monday
Open during holidays.
Sources: In Abruzzo - Penne Diocesan Museum, all the beauty of All Pens Pens - Museums Penne