11/09/2026
CASABELLA 983-984
year XC/ luglio-agosto 2026 july-august
GIOVANNI TORTELLI, ROBERTO FRASSONI
Terra Sancta Museum, Gerusalemme
In spite of the present darkness
txt by Manuela Castagnara Codeluppi
01/02 - The Hellenistic cistern known as “Herod’s,” revealed during the excavation below the Mamluk palace of the same name, is crossed by a bridge in steel and stone that makes it possible to grant continuity to the display path towards the underground spaces, with medieval walls and gates from the period of the Crusades
ph. 01 by Archivio GTR
ph. 02 Rocco Sebastiano Pagnoni
03 - The entrance to the new volume of the museum, from which the visit itinerary begins: at ground level visitors can see the sections on the locations of the life of Christ. At the extremities, large items are shown in the two-story spaces
ph. by Rocco Sebastiano Pagnoni
04 - The display of relics from the castle of Herod in the Judean Desert, the Herodium, with a large capital of the peristyle, together with those found in the excavation of the Fortress of Macheronte, distributed in the underground spaces of the period of the Crusades, discovered in the works of excavation conducted for the implementation of the new museum project
ph. by Tomislav Vuk
Art direction TassinariVetta