{"id":867,"date":"2014-05-12T10:32:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T10:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/?p=867"},"modified":"2014-05-12T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T10:32:59","slug":"montemonaco-and-its-museums-art-and-history-myths-and-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/art-and-culture\/montemonaco-and-its-museums-art-and-history-myths-and-legends.html","title":{"rendered":"Montemonaco and its museums: art and history, myths and legends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Museo di Arte Sacra<\/strong> is housed in the <strong>former church of San Biagio<\/strong> and exhibits numerous wooden sculptures from the town, including a number of very prestigious works such as the early 17th-century leather altar frontal and the Madonna del Soccorso, painted in 1521 by Giulio Vergati.<\/p>\n<p>The<strong> Museo della Grotta della Sibilla <\/strong>is housed in<strong> Villa Curi.<\/strong>The museum uses art, <strong>historic books, parchments <\/strong>and even a slide that reproduces the route leading to the legendary cave to convey how<strong> art, history, literature, myths, magic and legends are constantly interwoven <\/strong>in a truly fascinating fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Villa Curi is also home to the <strong>municipal historic archive<\/strong>, which conserves a <strong>parchment from 1452<\/strong> that documents the excommunication (later revoked) of the priors and the entire community of Montemonaco for hosting some knights who practised alchemy and accompanying them to the <strong>Lake of the Sibyl<\/strong> (better known as <strong>Lake Pilato<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>USEFUL INFORMATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Museo Sistino di arte sacra, Via Italia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Christmas &#8211; Easter &#8211; Summer \u00a0 \u00a0Scheduled opening<\/p>\n<p>Entrance fee \u00a0 \u00a0\u20ac 1.00<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Museo della Grotta della Sibilla, Villa Curi, Via Roma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>July &#8211; August \u00a0\u00a010 am\u201312.30 pm; 4.30 pm\u20137 pm (July: Tues\u2013Sun; August: Mon\u2013Sun)<\/p>\n<p>Entrance fee \u00a0 Free of charge<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Museo di Arte Sacra is housed in the former church of San Biagio and exhibits numerous wooden sculptures from the town, including a number of very prestigious works such as the early 17th-century leather altar frontal and the Madonna del Soccorso, painted in 1521 by Giulio Vergati. The Museo della Grotta della Sibilla is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","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\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youpiceno.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}