Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

Ethnography and anthropology museums

A museum based on an anthropological reading of the historical phenomenon of banditry in southern Lazio has been realised in Itri, homeland of the famous bandit Fra Diavolo. It is located in the building of the town’s former OMNI nursery school. It is located outside the town in a green area overlooking Via Appia. The setting gives voice to popular narrative linked to feats of banditry, to serials, to the songs and music of oral folklore, to popular and cultured iconography, to stories of the main bandits of southern Lazio between the 1700s and 1800s, and to the circuit of festivals and activities that are still linked to the phenomenon of banditry.