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Museo navale romano
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Museo navale romano

📍 Albenga🏗 1950-01-01🏛 Italian national heritage

The Museo navale romano stands in Albenga as a doorway to the city’s maritime past, housed in what is known as the Peloso Cepolla palace—the historic seat of Albenga’s Ingauna chapter of the Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri. Founded in 1950, this national heritage museum centers on the Roman shipwreck found about two miles off Albenga’s coast, a discovery that sparked underwater excavations led by Nino Lamboglia. In the first phase, the artillery boat Artiglio recovered more than a thousand amphorae, dozens of vases, and several wooden fragments from the ancient vessel, within fifteen days of fieldwork. A second excavation in 1962, conducted by the research vessel Daino, continued under the Centre for Submarine Archaeology, which has its national headquarters in Albenga. …

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