With the exhibition Regium Lepidi Underground in Via Emilia San Pietro 6, Credem opens the doors of the only archaeological site that can be visited in Reggio Emilia, housed in its headquarters, Palazzo Spalletti Trivelli.
The exhibition completes the route of the exhibitions that celebrate the 2200th anniversary of the construction of Via Emilia in the city, On the Road. Via Emilia 187 a.C. – 2017, at the Civic Museums and Ego Sum Via. Via Aemilia. Via Christi at the Diocesan Museum.

The title of the exhibition is an invitation to go down “underground”, under the ground, to admire the heart of Roman Reggio Emilia, then called Regium Lepidi. At a depth of three and a half meters below the level of the current Via Emilia, in fact, are preserved the ruins of the area of the Roman Forum, dating from the second century BC. C. to the fourth century, where you can see the impressive remains of a large public building, the Basilica, the civil court of the Roman city, and another impressive building, identified by archaeologists as part of the city’s defensive walls or as a base of the city temple.

Visitors will be invited to discover the history of an entire block of Regium Lepidi, from a production site attested by the existence of potters’ shops (around 175 BC), a residential area with the presence of domus, ornate stately homes from elegant mosaics, in the I sec. to. C. At the end of the first century AD C. the area was included in the Forum and was transformed into the nerve center of city power, with the construction of public buildings of which the imposing traces are still visible.

The events of the archaeological site will be deepened thanks to the presence of findings found during the excavation, carried out between 1980 and 1983, which for the first time return to the place where they were found. In addition to these works, some panels with elegant mosaic floors from the excavation carried out in 1958 in the San Rocco Isolation area will also be exhibited. The variety of the presented works will allow deepening several aspects related to the construction techniques of the Roman era.

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