Museo Diocesano Ortona

The first nucleus of the museum collection was collected in the first post-war period in order to preserve and protect the many and valuable artworks from the 12th to the 19th centuries coming from the Cathedral and other worship places in the territory, after escaping the bombing destruction suffered by…

The second room of the museum is divided in two different sections: in the first one there is the continuation of the chronological itinerary in the Ortonese figurative art from the 18th century paintings by Giambattista Gamba, dedicated to Saint Catherine of Alexandria’s life, to the two pieces portraying Saint…

In this last room of the museum drawn from the Chapel dedicated to Saint Onuphius, formerly private chapel of De Sanctis family as shown by the two funeral monuments still in the room, there are a lot of testimonies to centuries of Ortonese History, archaeological finds of the Roman period…