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The Riace bronzes. The Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia (National Museum of Magna Græcia), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria (National Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria) or Palazzo Piacentini is a museum in Reggio Calabria, southern Italy, housing an archaeological collection from sites in Magna Graecia.
Reggio Calabria, served by air from the Reggio Calabria Airport (IATA: REG, ICAO: LICR) also known as Aeroporto dello Stretto or Tito Minniti Airport, is located a few kilometres south of Reggio. The airport has been at the center of polemics about its financial loss, risking to be closed. [ 64 ]
Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia, Reggio Calabria, Italy The Riace bronzes ( Italian : Bronzi di Riace , [ˈbrondzi di riˈaːtʃe] ), also called the Riace Warriors , are two full-size Greek bronze statues of naked bearded warriors, cast about 460–450 BC [ 1 ] that were found in the sea in 1972 near Riace , Calabria , in southern Italy .
The idea to found a museum about the ndrangheta came into force through the signature of an agreement among the prefecture of Reggio Calabria, the Calabria Region, the province of Reggio Calabria, the Municipality of Reggio Calabria, the ethnology professorship of the Sapienza University of Rome and the arts faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the University of Calabria.
Reggio Calabria. Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia; Museo dello Strumento Musicale; ... Holy Shroud History Museum; Municipal Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art;
Magna Graecia [a] is a term that was used for the Greek-speaking areas of Southern Italy, in the present-day Italian regions of Calabria, Apulia, Basilicata, Campania and Sicily; these regions were extensively populated by Greek settlers starting from the 8th century BC.