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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 in Albenga stands in the heart of the historic center, housed in the Peloso Cepolla palace as the Ingauna section of the Istituto Internazionale di Studi Liguri. The museum’s core began with the discovery of a I century BCE Roman ship about two miles off Albenga’s coast; archeological work commissioned in 1950, led by Nino Lamboglia, uncovered more than a thousand amphorae, numerous vessels, and remains of the ship Artiglio after just fifteen days. A second investigation in 1962, conducted by the Daino, followed, with further submarine expeditions organized by the Centro Sperimentale di Archeologia Subacquea, which maintains its national headquarters in Albenga. Today, the collection extends beyond the shipwreck material to underwater finds from explorations from 1957 onward around the Gallinara island. …

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