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CROTONE Home of Pythagoras, the site of ancient Kroton has been entirely lost, but in its day this was among the most important colonial settlements of Magna Graecia, with a school of medicine that was famous throughout the classical world. On the old town's main Corso Vittorio Emanuele, the Duomo's most important attraction is an icon of the Black Madonna. The new Museo Archeologico Nazionale holds the best collection of finds from Magna Graecia on the Ionian coast. On display are Greek and Roman coins, information about and fragments from the excavations at Crotone and its various colonies, lists of the Olympic winners who hailed from the city, maps of the digs and items from Capo Colonna. Don't miss the Treasure of Hera, a beautifully restored collection of votive objects and jewels – including a sphinx, a gorgon, a horse, a winged siren and a very rare nuraghic boat from Sardinia – found in a tomb at Capo Colonna in 1987, and dating from the seventh to the fifth centuries BC. The most famous item is a gold diadem from the temple of Hera Lacynia. |
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