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Museum · Villanova del Battista (AV)

Multimedia Museum of Transhumance

  • Visit: about 1 h 30 min
  • 729 m
Pictured: Villanova del Battista · Bruno Pippo · CC BY-SA 2.0 · resized

A multimedia museum in Villanova del Battista devoted to transhumance, a tradition linked to the Pescasseroli-Candela drove road.

Villanova del Battista is crossed by the royal Pescasseroli-Candela drove road, one of the ancient routes travelled by flocks, so it is no surprise that a museum devoted to transhumance was born right here. Opened in 2019 on Piazza Michele Venuti, it uses multimedia tools to tell the story of the seasonal movements of shepherds and animals.We like this museum because it gives a voice to a tradition recognised by UNESCO as intangible cultural heritage, relating it to the Irpinian landscape. We suggest visiting it before a walk in the surrounding area, so as to look at the landscape with new eyes: for centuries those grassy tracks were the true motorways of pastoralism.

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