Two years of work will be needed To bring to light the Hellenistic theater – Romano In the Archaeological site of Halaesa Arconideain the territory of TusaIn the Messina. This is the timing set during the Delivery of excavation worksin recent days in the presence of the top of the Archaeological park of Tindarifrom the Superintendence for Cultural Heritage of Messina and of theMunicipal Administration of Tusa. The intervention will be the interventionCavarra Vincenzo Srl of Noto for a total amount of beyond 760 thousand euros.
“It is an extraordinary event in the history of Archaeological discoveries in Sicily – said the commissioner to Cultural Heritage and Sicilian Identity Francesco Paolo Scarpinato – this will allow you to know and study a Monumental public building of Greco-Roman age first -rate for his exceptional dimensions And it state of conservation of the architectural elements that constitute it ».
THE’important discovery of the theater is made certain and documented by Excavation essays conducted in 2017 and from Open trenches between 2018 and 2019Finally from the Excavation campaign of 2021which made it possible to define the peculiar characteristics of the monument and have a part of the southern wall of the cavea and of the Wall of the access corridor to the building. The merit of the discovery of the monument is of the Archaeologists of the French mission of the University of Amiensdirected by the professor Michela Costanzi.
The theaterwith a diameter of 77 meters and one depth of 37.5 meterscould contain about ten thousand spectators and it was used both as public space for shows and meetingsthat like fundamental urban element for the connection between the southern part and the north part of the city.
The excavation was financed byRegional Department of Cultural Heritage and Sicilian identity Based on a Project drawn up by the architect Giuseppe Natoli (current director of the Archaeological Park of Tindari), Pietro Coppolinofrom the Surveyor Giovanni Manera and from theArchitect Pietro Lipari.
“In addition to being a event of great scientific exceptionalism – is the comment of the Director of the Archaeological Park of Tindari Giuseppe Natoli – lo excavation of the theater of the ancient city of Alesastill buried below 12,600 cubic meters of land, Fourth in Sicily for importance and dimensions After that of Syracuse, Agrigento (during the excavation) e Taorminawould do Alesa one of the main stages in the tourist circuit of the archaeological sites of the islandrecalling the interest of national and international touristsbut also of scholars and