Sights in Reggio Di Calabria
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Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia
A Magna Graecia munificence fills the excellent Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia. The museum’s pride, displayed in an earthquake-proof basement, are the world’s finest examples of ancient Greek sculpture: the Bronzi di Riace, two exquisite bronze statues discovered on the seabed near Riace in 1972. Larger than life, they depict the Greek obsession with the body beautiful, inscrutable, determined and fierce, their perfect form more godlike than human. No-one knows who they are – whether man or god – and even their provenance is a mystery. They date from around 450 BC, and it’s believed they’re the work of two artists.
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