{"id":2453,"date":"2024-09-09T18:21:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T16:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archeofficina.com\/prodotto\/the-catacomb-of-villagrazia-di-carini\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:58:43","slug":"the-catacomb-of-villagrazia-di-carini","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/archeofficina.com\/en\/prodotto\/the-catacomb-of-villagrazia-di-carini\/","title":{"rendered":"The catacomb of Villagrazia di Carini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visits are aimed at local visitors, tourists and schoolchildren for whom in-depth historical-artistic and archaeological studies can be arranged. Topics of special educational interest, which could attract more attention of the pupils and on which possibly focus an additional part of the visit are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Late Victorian and Neo Testament frescoes with themes of Christian iconography;<\/li>\n<li>Epigraphs of funerary character in Greek and Latin;<\/li>\n<li>Historical framing of the territory and peopling of the Carini plain included in the system of the Roman Empire;<\/li>\n<li>Insight into the work of the archaeologist: archaeological excavation, surveying, anthropological excavation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early Christian catacomb of <strong>Villagrazia di Carini<\/strong>, with its more than 5,000 square meters of excavated surface, stands as one of the most important testimonies of that historical period in <strong>Sicily.<\/strong> The monument is characterized not only by the monumentality of the tunnels and hypogean cubicles, in whose walls arcosoli and loculi are still perfectly preserved, but also by the numerous neo- and vetero testamentary frescoes, as well as scenes of daily life and an iconographic repertoire belonging to the full Roman tradition, restored and dated among the oldest on the island.<\/p>\n<p>The tour, which winds through tunnels and cubicles, lasts about 60 minutes and is led by the <strong>archaeologists<\/strong> of the <strong>ArcheOfficina Cooperative<\/strong>, who have also been involved in the archaeological excavation of the site for more than a decade, in collaboration with the <strong>Pontifical Commission<\/strong> <strong>for Sacred Archaeology<\/strong> and the chair of <strong>Christian Archaeology at the University of Palermo.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To arrange your visit by reservation for tour groups or school groups on days and times other than regular openings, please send an e-mail at least one week in advance, with the expected number of participants and the day and time requested, to: info@archeofficina.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full \u20ac 5.00 <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Reduced \u20ac 3.50<\/strong> (under 18, schoolchildren, university students)<br \/>\n<strong>Free<\/strong> for group chaperones and children under 6 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2183,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_joinchat":[]},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[59,60],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2453","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-catacombs","product_cat-monuments","first","instock","sale","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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