Museo Civico Medievale

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Since 1985, the Museo Civico Medievale in Bologna has its seat in Palazzo Ghisilardi (which rose on the ruins of an antique Palatium destroyed in 1116) which dates back to the XV century.

In the museum one can admire works of Longobard production, a collection of Ferdinando Cospi, an encyclopedic collection of rare and curious objects coming from exotic worlds like: the Syrian-Egyptian jug (end of the XIII century), a collection of arms (a couple of Turkish arches and arrows from the XVII century), and the Fondo Palagi (1860) in which one notes the gold plated cross in Longobard style from the VIII century, the ivory carved with a design showing Jesus in a vegetable patch (XII century), and the gold plated saddle.

The most valuable collection is mainly composed by documents from the medieval ages: significative is a bronze vase which shows a warrior on horseback which projects the visitor into the chivalrous atmosphere of those times.

One must not forget the monumental statue of , with its gold-plated bronze sheets, realised by the goldsmith Manno Bandini from Siena (1301), in memory Bonifacio VIIIof the Pope who dedicated himself to mediating the end of the war between Bologna and Ferrara.

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