CANE ANTIQUARIUM DELLA BATTAGLIA
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Museum retracing the main episodes of the famous and bloody battle of Cane.
The museum, the Antiquarium, retraces with plans and models the main episodes of the famous and bloody battle of Canne (August 2, 216 BC), near Barletta, between Rome and Carthage during the Second Punic War. During this battle, the Carthaginian army, led by the general Hannibal Barca, surrounded and then routed the Roman legions. Hannibal's military genius allowed his army to win despite its numerical inferiority. The tactical maneuvers adopted by Carthage during the battle are considered a model of its kind. The museum's collections also include funerary furnishings from the tombs of an Apulian village (6th-3rd century B.C.) and objects from prehistory to the Middle Ages, including beautiful vases with geometric designs, one of the oldest painted ceramics discovered in Italy.
From the museum you can go to the Sepolcreto, a vast necropolis of the medieval Canne della Battaglia, south-east of the city (località Fontanella). The archaeological park includes the remains of the ancient medieval citadel that covers the remains of the Daunian and Roman settlement. You can still see the walls flanked by towers that fortified the hill, the streets dotted with small houses and stores and, in the western part, the remains of two Christian basilicas. From the top of the hill, there is a vast panorama of the Ofanto river plain where the battle of Cane took place.
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