On Saturday 22 June, the Rome Delegation of the FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano is organizing extraordinary visits to discover the excavations of Palazzo Corsini, headquarters of the Accademia dei Lincei, which are not usually open to visitors and which will soon be buried.
An unmissable appointment made possible by FAI volunteers who will reveal to visitors a complex, dating back to the first century. to. c., which overlooked the ancient road layout that connected the Septimiana gate to the area where Villa Farnesina will later be built. It will be possible to see structures that were most probably used for cooking ceramic materials or for glazing clay objects.
The path will also allow you to see the materials found during the excavation: a very large quantity of amphorae, mostly oil amphorae, as well as preparations of amphorae with fragments of pottery. Their intensive positioning and their overlapping would therefore also suggest a drainage area for the waters that flowed from the Gianicolo towards the Tiber.
The visit will end under the internal facade of Palazzo Corsini, 108 meters long, in the Cortile della Cavallerizza, renovated by Ferdinando Fuga, breathing the air that pervades the seat of the oldest scientific academy in the world, today the greatest Italian cultural institution. Guided tours are organized by Fai Volunteers, in collaboration with the Accademia dei Lincei and the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape. Admission free of charge, with preferential lanes for FAI Members.
