Museo Civico Di Santa Marina Salina

santa marina salina The Museum of the City of Santa Marina Salina is composed of three buildings, each dedicated to the deepening of a different historical moment or one of the many facets of the island. The population of the language are based Ethno-anthropological and archaeological sections, while adjacent to the Town Hall is the Wine Museum, an ancient parmiento (winery) in which its function along with some objects used in grape processing is described for wine production. In the archaeological section exposes the material from two important sites discovered in the town of Santa Marina Salina. From the Middle Bronze Age village at Portella come numerous vessels in dough by hand, stone artefacts, the unique bronze sword found in the Aeolian Islands and the large jars characteristics that were used to store especially water. The most important find and admired the museum, however, is undoubtedly the stunning necklace Portella (1500 BC), a necklace made of two strands of pearls in glass paste and carnelian found in 1955 in a village of Portella hut. The Ethno-anthropological museum is located in a house of the early nineteenth century. Inside there is the oven (furnu) and an old mill (trappitu). In the rooms they are reconstructed everyday locations Aeolian population of the end '800 -' 900. Exhibited artifacts that tell the fishing daily work and the inhabitants agriculture. Among the finds they are present, among others, used tools for the working of cereals or for the collection of capers, known local agriculture boast. On the first floor are collected photographic documents and written on the protagonists of the "sea merchants' or businesses eoliani in 1700-1800, especially the wine, enriched by the presence of the same era model ships.