Palazzo Simi – Bari

Description

Palazzo Simi is located in the heart of the old city of Bari, near the Sagges and Calò palaces and the monastery of Santa Teresa dei Maschi. The structure – the current state headquarters assigned to the Archeology of the Superintendency of Archeology, fine arts and landscape for the metropolitan city of Bari – is a Renaissance palatiata house that preserves a dense and tight archaeological and architectural stratification both vertical and horizontal.

The structures of two overlapping Christian churches, in the basement of the building, are chronologically unforgettable, in the first case, in the early Middle Ages and, in the second, in the middle ages; they arise on imperial wall remains (1^st century AD). The elegant spaces on the ground and upper floors are the result of the enlargements and transformations of the original medieval nucleus into a historic residence, built between the 16^th and 17^th centuries.

The redevelopment works of the historic center of Bari, carried out in the 90s of the 20^th century, allowed to renovate the building, which became the Operations Center for Archeology of Bari. The seat, in addition to the underground archaeological area where you can visit the Byzantine and medieval churches, at the ground floor has spaces used for the display of artifacts resulting from emergency excavations carried out in the Bari area.

On the upper floors, however, there are the Offices dedicated to archaeology of the Superintendence ABAP for the metropolitan city of Bari, in addition to the Laboratory for the Restoration of Archaeological Finds and the recent Laboratory of Physical Anthropology established in 2019.

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