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The Museum archaeological national Domenico Ridola of Matera is the most ancient museum of the Basilicata. Founded February 9 th 1911 for wish of the senator and physician Domenico Ridola (that it gave his important collections to the State) introduces the numerous testimonies recovered in the territory of the province materana and of the Murges.
The Museum is entertained in the places of the seventeenth-century convent of Saint Chiara and it picks up material from the prehistoric epoch up to the III century B.C.The preserved material in the museum is mainly divided in the five different rooms. There is first of all the prehistoric section the most typical. Here we find material going up again to the paleolitico, as for instance arrows, javelins and axes, recovered in the different places of the Murgia Materana, and particularly near the cave of the bats; there are subsequently the testimonies coming from the villages entrenched of epoch neolitica recovered in the places of Tirlecchia, Murgia Timone, Murgecchia and Greenhouse of tall.This last place is note for the presence of the ceramics type he/she dictates note "Greenhouse of tall", characterized by brown varnish and motives geometric complexes.
The presence of such going up again villages to the neolitico testifies the introduction of the agriculture and the to settle some population, that was nomadic in stable installations in preceding epochs. There are finally going up again recoveries to the age of the bronze, among which the graves of Murgia Timone.There are then two rooms where the objects are exposed coming from the situated centers in the valleys of the two principal rivers of the area materana, the valley of the Basento and the valley of the Bradano: to the first one the documentation belongs coming from the centers ancient correspondents to the actual Pisticcis, Ferrandina, Pomarico, Garaguso and Calla lily of Tricarico; particularly from this last site they originate material of a Roman necropolis, from Pisticci the outfits of the graves to tumult of the age of the iron and the materials of archaic necropolis and the V century B.C., among which the figures vases redheads of the Painter of Pisticci; from the other centers they originate material of the burials of a long arc of time.In the room of the valley of the Bradano there are instead the testimonies related to the ancient centers that correspond to the actual Montescagliosos, Miglionico and Irsina; to the first center they correspond different funeral outfits that go from the VII century B.C. to the IV century B.C. From Miglionico they originate material from the geometric epoch up to the III century B.C. they are You different samples of decorated ceramics finally.n a further room they are exposed the materials coming from the excavations of Matera and outskirts; it mainly concerns archaeological testimonies of archaic age, lucana and subsequently Roman. They are found in this section you equip funeral of archaic epoch, coins, italic bronzetti among which the figure of Ercole with the cudgel and with the arc datable approximately among the You and the IV century B.C., bronzy furnishings of Roman age.
The documentation of great importance is related to Timmari, place to few kilometers from Matera. From the stipe votiva and from the necropolis of Timmari, going up again to the IV century B.C., they originate in fact a lot of figurines votive in terracotta and funeral outfits with armors in bronze and monumental figures vases redheads.In the room Ridola there is finally an exposure of manuscripts, documents and testifying heirlooms the activity of Domenico Ridola, founder of the museum and local researcher of history and antiquity, as well as physician and senator.
The castle of Tramontano is situated on a hill, called the lapel hill, above the historical centre of the city of Matera.
In Aragonese style, the castle, with a central male and two lower side towers, one and the other round, scalloped and equipped with loops, was built from 1501 by Count Giovan Carlo Tramontano, feudal lord of Matera. The new king of Naples, Ferdinand II, had promised the Materrani not to give the city to any more feudal lords, after that this had already freed itself several times from the feudal yoke paying various ransoms in order to remain free city to autonomous regiment, that is directly dependent on the Crown.Instead the Count sets, which boasted claims against the royal treasury, asked and obtained the Matera County in 1496.
The Count soon became enfeebled to the materani because with the passage of time he was replenished with debts, in order to cope with which he taxed the population with heavy taxes. Thus began the construction of the castle, which was situated on a hill dominating the city, outside the city walls, with the purpose of "feudal" control of the surrounding lands rather than defense of the city itself.
It seems that then the construction should have included other defensive towers, one of which was found under the central Piazza Vittorio Veneto in Matera together with other underground environments. For the construction of the castle 25,000 ducats were spent and this weighed even more on the population.
It was thus that some citizens, tired of the continuous abuses, gathered hidden behind a rock, which since then was called u pizzon' du mal consigghj, that is "the stone of bad council", and organized the assassination of the "tyrant" set. On December 29, 1514, the count, who had just left the cathedral, was assassinated in a side street of the same, which was later eloquently called "Way of ransom". The castle thus remained unfinished.Since 2008, he has been interested, together with the surrounding park, in restoration works still in progress. Some of these interventions are aimed at the recovery of the moat with the restoration of the tufa walls. The project is financed also thanks to the funds of the Game of the Lotto, as regulated by law 662/96.