Le porte si aprono - Biblioteca Storica e Museo Archeologico

At Villa Balladoro, an elegant 18th-century residence in the heart of Povegliano Veronese, are housed the Archaeological Museum and the Historical Library.

The Archaeological Museum offers a fascinating journey through time, featuring Bronze Age and Iron Age artefacts discovered in the area of Povegliano Veronese. Among its collections stand out Celtic materials and a rare Lombard tomb. The first archaeological excavations in the area, conducted between 1876 and 1877, brought to light a Middle Bronze Age necropolis, with inhumations accompanied by grave goods such as swords, daggers, and pins, today preserved at the “Luigi Pigorini” National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography in Rome. In the following years, groups of Late Iron Age burials were discovered in the localities of Campi Magri della Bora and Madonna dell’Uva Secca. These prehistoric testimonies are today richly documented in the three rooms on the ground floor of Villa Balladoro, offering a complete overview of the entire chronological sequence.

Also located on the ground floor of the Villa is the Historical Library, a precious treasure trove of culture with 10,728 volumes and the Balladoro family Archive, consisting of 74 folders (for a total of 911 files or documents) and 149 registers, preserving centuries of local memory.