Christliches Museum

Everybody knows that Cividale is a small town founded by Julius Caesar, rich in Roman and Lombard treasures, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2011 and this year Orange Flag for the Italian Touring Club.

One of its gems, a must for visitors who reach the city, is the Christian Museum and Treasures of the Cathedral. Founded in 1946 not only to give a better location to two of the most famous Lombard monuments, the Ara di Ratchis and the Baptistery of Callisto, but also for people to get to known the exceptional number of precious liturgical objects, rare relics and goldsmith treasures found in the city.

The exhibition is divided into four rooms:

The first one emphasizes the Ara of Ratchis, an altar donated by the Lombard Duke Ratchis to honor his father Pemmone, made of Aurisina stone (from the karst) and decorated with extraordinary bas-reliefs on all four sides; and the baptistery of Callisto, a monument wanted by the patriarch Callisto to embellish Cividale that consists of an octagonal basin with three descending steps that was used for immersion baptism, and an upper part where eight columns of Greek marble with Corinthian capitals rise from the parapet which support the arched tegurium.

In the second room you will find precious sacred furnishings of high historical and artistic value enclosed in display cases. In one of these cases are kept the symbols of the Spadone Mass, (a historical re-enactment held on January 6) a feathered helmet, a 15th century evangelary and the sword by Marquardo di Randeck.

The third room is enriched by a small picture gallery with paintings from the churches of Cividale, to get to the fourth room where the Altar Veil of the Blessed Saint Benvenuta Boiani is exhibited. According to the legend, it was angels who helped the saint to embroider in one night in the moonlight the precious veil enriched with delicate embroideries, stripes, lozenges, leaves, stars, lilies, groups of saints and liturgical scenes.

Timetables: 10.00-13.0

15.00-17.00 from Wednesday to Sunday

The Museum is located in: via G.B. Candotti, 1

Tel: +39 0432 730403

      +39 3493541668

info@mucris.it

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