{"id":2599,"date":"2015-12-19T17:55:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T16:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ambientecultura.it\/en\/?page_id=2599"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:58:41","slug":"underground-alba-english-version","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ambientecultura.it\/en\/3659-2\/underground-alba-english-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground Alba: a journey to the center of the city"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The past lies under your feet!<\/span><\/p>\n

Discover the underground history of the city with an archaeologist!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

THE PROJECT\u00a0\"LogoA&C-adaltarisoluzione\"<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The \u201cUnderground Alba\u201d project was launched in Spring 2011. It is administrated by the association \u201cAmbiente & Cultura\u201d and co-ordinated by the Museum \u201cF. Eusebio\u201d of Alba, with the patronage of the Ministry of Culture and of the Archaeological Superintendence of Piedmont and MAE. The 2013 profits have been reallocated in the restoration of the Mastodont of Verduno, a fossil
\npartially destroyed by an illegal excavation, and to the safeguard of Tanaro river paleontological heritage.\u00a0\"fig02_zoomalbapompeia\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Since the time of Alba Pompeia<\/em><\/strong> (that was the name of the city during the Roman age), the historical centre of the city has seen a sequence of generations of town, belonging to different civilizations, one after the other, in the same place .\u00a0 The medieval town grew up on the ruins pertaining to the Roman period,<\/strong> the modern town took its place without cancelling it completely, and so on, we arrived at today\u2019s town that still retains the urban shape of Alba Pompeia. Many things have remained in the heart of the \u00a0underground city as evidence of the past two thousand years of history. <\/strong>A few meters below the streets and the sidewalks, there are fragments of lost cities which constitute the rich heritage of the F. Eusebio Museum and of the archaeological and architectural city path. The ancient temple, the roman age theatre and main square, the first baptismal font, the lost medieval towers…<\/em><\/p>\n

TO DOWLOAD THE FLYER WITH ALL INFORMATION, PLEASE CLICK HERE: PIEGHEVOLE ENG<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Groups can request any date on booking.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

Visit path<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Underground Alba<\/strong> path is a\u00a0walking tour with a professional archaeologist<\/strong> to discover Alba\u2019s underground roots. The itinerary will vary according to the day selected<\/strong>.<\/span> The journey foresees to reach 3 of the 32 archaeological and monumental sites of the city and it ends in the museum that houses the fossils of the Mastodont of Verduno and the Whale of Alba.<\/p>\n

The visit will take approximately one and a half to two hours on foot in the city to the three underground archaeological sites.<\/p>\n

At the end free visit to the 20 rooms of the \u201cEusebio\u201d museum.<\/p>\n

For more information feel free to use the menu in the upper right corner of the page or the list of topics at the bottom.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

WHEN AND WHERE<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to see available dates. Tours regularly run all year long every first and third saturday and every second and fourth sunday of each month. Tours may run for special festivities and occasions.<\/p>\n

Tours are available for private and school groups any day with prior reservation. To make a reservation email us at info@ambientecultura.it. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The tours will start:<\/p>\n