Cupra Marittima offers an interesting and varied selection of museum collections, ranging from natural history to history and archaeology.<\/p>\n
The Museo Malacologico del Piceno<\/strong> in Cupra Marittima is just a short distance from the sea, on the SS16 Adriatica main road.Its exhibition comprises seven hundred thousand shells<\/strong>, along with an interesting ethnographic section featuring shells from all over the world that have been processed in different ways.<\/p>\n The Area Archeologica del Ninfeo Romano<\/strong> is situated three kilometres outside the town centre and extends over a total area of 0.32 km2<\/sup>. It is home to the remains of a Roman settlement, a forum with a temple devoted to Venus, a villa with nymphaeum and a bath house with late Imperial mosaics.<\/p>\n The local Museo Archeologico<\/strong>, situated in the historic mediaeval village of Marano, in Palazzo Cipoletti, an 18th-century fortified house, displays the archaeological finds uncovered in this area over recent decades.The museum is divided into three sections:prehistoric, Picenes and Roman.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n USEFUL INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n Museo Malacologico del Piceno, Via Adriatica Nord, 240<\/strong><\/p>\n 0735777550; malacologia@fastnet.it<\/a>; www.malacologia.org<\/a><\/p>\n October\u2013May \u00a0 3 pm-6.30 pm (Thurs-Sun)<\/p>\n April\u2013September \u00a0 3.30 pm-7 pm (Tues-Sun)<\/p>\n June \u00a0 4 pm-8.30 pm (Mon-Sun)<\/p>\n July\u2013August \u00a0 4 pm-10.30 pm (Mon-Sun)<\/p>\n Entrance fee \u00a0 \u20ac 7.50 (full); \u20ac 5.00 (reduced)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Area Archeologica del Ninfeo Romano, Via Adriatica Nord<\/strong><\/p>\n All year round \u00a0 By prior booking<\/p>\n Entrance fee \u00a0 \u00a0Free of charge<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Museo Archeologico del territorio, Contrada Marano 1<\/strong><\/p>\n June\u2013September and public holidays \u00a0 6 pm-9 pm (Mon-Sun)<\/p>\n Entrance fee \u00a0 Free of charge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cupra Marittima offers an interesting and varied selection of museum collections, ranging from natural history to history and archaeology. The Museo Malacologico del Piceno in Cupra Marittima is just a short distance from the sea, on the SS16 Adriatica main road.Its exhibition comprises seven hundred thousand shells, along with an interesting ethnographic section featuring shells […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-culture"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}