Synagogue Museum and Archeoderi Archaeological Park - Virtual Tour 360°

The Museum and the Archaeological Park fall within the current territory of Bova, along the southern Calabrian Ionian side, related in the Greek age to the Chalcidian colony of Rhegion (today's Reggio Calabria) and frequented since prehistoric times.

The entire area has its origins in the Greek world and the so-called "Bovesia" or "Grecanica area", still characterized by the use of the Greek language, is a significant testimony.

The park rises around the remains attributable to a synagogue brought to light in the 1980s.

In use between the 4th and 6th centuries AD, it constitutes the only architectural testimony of the Jewish presence in Calabria for this age.

Site among the most important in the Mediterranean, the synagogue is the oldest in the West after that of Ostia Antica and its discovery has opened new scenarios on the history of Jewish communities in southern Calabria.

The excavations have highlighted two main nuclei of the building consisting of several rooms and a third which probably constituted the access to the synagogue itself.

Of great interest is the discovery of the Prayer Hall whose mosaic floor reproduces the traditional seven-branched candelabrum, menorah, surrounded by a palm branch, a cedar and the shofar, the ram's horn used as a musical instrument for some ceremonies. Jewish religious.

Map: Synagogue Museum and Archeoderi Archaeological Park - Virtual Tour 360°