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This section brings together updates from the DiscoVereto project: news from the site, photos from the field, short accounts by the archaeologists, in-depth articles on materials, and event announcements.
This section brings together updates from the DiscoVereto project: news from the site, photos from the field, short accounts by the archaeologists, in-depth articles on materials, and event announcements.
These updates will allow you to follow the work step by step, explaining how a discovery comes about, what questions it raises and what investigations it requires. A photo of the excavation, a pottery fragment, a stratigraphic section or a map can all provide opportunities to explain the archaeological method.
These updates will allow you to follow the work step by step, explaining how a discovery comes about, what questions it raises and what investigations it requires. A photo of the excavation, a pottery fragment, a stratigraphic section or a map can all provide opportunities to explain the archaeological method.
Updates will be published during the 2026 campaign and in the subsequent phases of study, laboratory analysis and public presentation.
Updates will be published during the 2026 campaign and in the subsequent phases of study, laboratory analysis and public presentation.
Presentation to the community of the first archaeological excavation campaign in Vereto
Presentation to the community of the first archaeological excavation campaign in Vereto
On 13 May 2026, at 6.00 pm, at Palazzo Romano in Patù, there will be a public presentation of the first archaeological excavation campaign in Vereto.
The event will be an opportunity to learn more about DiscoVereto, the research project dedicated to the ancient Messapian city of Vereto, promoted as part of Leucantica and included in the Storie Meridiane project of the municipalities of Patù and Morciano di Leuca.
The public is invited to attend an event dedicated to the objectives of the excavation, the historical and archaeological significance of the site, and the research, conservation and enhancement activities that will be launched in the area.
Institutional greetings:
Gabriele Abaterusso, Mayor of Patù
Lorenzo Ricchiuti, President of the “Terra di Leuca” Union of Municipalities and Mayor of Morciano di Leuca
Antonio Zunno, Superintendent of the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Brindisi, Lecce and Taranto
Speeches:
Valentino Nizzo, Associate Professor at the Università Orientale di Napoli and Scientific Director of the excavation
Coordinated by:
Mariangela Sammarco, Scientific Director of the Vereto Archaeological Museum
An opportunity to discover the initial research objectives and the significance of a site that continues to tell our story.
Municipality of Patù Municipality of Morciano di Leuca Associazione Narrazioni Archeorete Del Mediterraneo Castromediano Museum - Lecce.
Within the framework of the "Storie Meridiane" project of the Municipalities of Patù and Morciano di Leuca — funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU and by the Ministry of Culture under the PNRR Culture – M1C3I2.1
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