• from October 2023 to May 2024, from Tuesday to Sunday 9am-1pm, 2pm-6pm
Admission (including entrance to the Sas Underground Archaeological Space): €5; reduced price: €4; free for children under 14, disabled people and their companions, groups and groups of students accompanied by their teachers; special rate with the Trentino Guest Card and the Museum Pass
Guided tours: €3
Workshops: €4
The reduced entry fee (4 euros) applies:
- young people from 15 to 26 years of age;
- persons who have reached the age of 65;
- groups of visitors consisting of at least 15 paying people;
- to members or members of subjects affiliated with the museum: see the list of affiliated cards SASS.pdf 88.33 kB
Reduced rates for families:
- family rate: full fee payment for adults, free entry for children under 18
- family Card holders - Euregio Family Pass:
- the cost of a reduced fare ticket for the parent (s) together with one or more minor children;
- the cost of a reduced fare ticket for grandparents together with one or more minor grandchildren;
- the cost of a full fare ticket for the parent (s) together with one or more minor children and grandparents. The family unit must enter compactly
Schools: free admission, educational activity 2 euros
Small dogs held in their arms or in the carrier are allowed access.
A rich house located outside the walls of Tridentum with a large hall decorated with a beautiful polychrome mosaic depicting Orpheus intent on enchanting the beasts with the sound of the lyre.
In Trento in 1954, on the occasion of the works for the construction of the new scientific high school in via A. Rosmini, a large room was identified with a mosaic from the Roman age in which Orpheus is represented, enchanting the fairs. Subsequent archaeological investigations, conducted from 1958 by the Superintendence of Antiquities of the Venetians then also competent for the Trentino territory, subsequently brought to light other environments belonging to the same building.
The news made a big splash in the city given the extraordinary importance of the remains. With great commitment from the Province of Trento and the Ministry, it was decided to create an archaeological site that could be visited. The "Villa romana di via A. Rosmini" was inaugurated on 18 October 1966, but only a few days later, between 4 and 6 November, following the flood that scourged Italy, mud and sludge mixed with naphtha invaded the entire area, necessitating demanding restoration work.
The Roman villa of Orpheus was built outside the walls of Tridentum in an area that seems to have been reserved for residences of considerable prestige.
The oldest finds that demonstrate the use of the area where the villa was built for residential purposes date back to the very first decades of the first century AD. The period of greatest development of the residential area is between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, a period to which the structures still visible belong that are part of a larger complex that had to continue beyond the limits of excavation.
Of particular value is the environment of considerable size characterized by the presence of a splendid polychrome mosaic carpet in which Orpheus is depicted playing the lyre surrounded by animals.
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