Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria

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The Museum was born in 1904. Its first bulk of materials consisted of local finds, collected during more than 150 years by the noble Bocchi family. In 1972 it then became a National Museum. The present-day location, recently enlarged and renewed, offers an exposition area of more than 1200 square meters. The exhibition trail shows the extraordinary ancient history of the Lower Polesine and Adria, an harbour town born in the VI century BC next to a branch of the Po delta. The Adriatic Sea owes its name to Adria. Of particular importance are the Greek pottery and the precious funerary goods, among which are Attic vessels, Etruscan bronzes of late archaic and classic age, and refined Roman glasses.