Permanent Archaeological Exhibition

In 2015, excavations carried out in the cloister of the Abbey for routine work led to an extraordinary discovery, namely the discovery of archaeological finds dating back to the Late Bronze Age. This has made it possible to backdate the history of Chiaravalle from medieval times (i.e. from the foundation of the Cistercian Abbey in the 12th century, on the site of a pre-existing Benedictine settlement from the Longobard era) to almost two millennia earlier. To give a sense of historical perspective, we could say that the first anthropisation of the territory on which Chiaravalle stands is contemporaneous with the Trojan War (c. 1200 BC)! After two years, during which the ArcheoLab team - under the supervision of the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio delle Marche (Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape Department of the Marche Region) - analysed and partially reassembled the fragments found, in December 2017 the fruit of this discovery and the long work that came out of it was presented: the Permanent Archaeological Exhibition “From the Village to the Abbey” (which can be visited during the opening hours of the Municipal Library).