The Rhaetian Museum is in Casalini di Sanzeno, a very important area for archaeology. The excavations carried out here have made it possible to reconstruct thousands of years of history… from Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, to the first Neolithic farmers, to the Copper Age metallurgists and the Bronze Age places of worship.
The protagonist here is the Rhaetians, who inhabited Trentino and Tyrol before the Romans. Their ethnic origin is uncertain: Pliny says they are descendants of the Etruscans, but their relationship with the Celts is also evident. In the Museum you can see their splendid artistic productions, cult objects, work tools and simple testimonies of daily life.
With Augustus, Rhaetia became a Roman province: and here are the statues, the rich funerary objects, the epigraphs and then the signs of new cults coming from the East. Finally, the martyrdom of the saints of Anaunia announces the advent of Christianity.
