Museum
To Altomonte the main attraction is sure the art, in top to alive the fascinate medioevale village to the
cliff stands out imposing it massiccia size of the trecentesca Church of S.Maria of the Consolation of style gotico-angioino. Great examples of art in
the Civic Museum, where works of Simone Martini, Bernardo Daddi are guarded,Nino Pisano, the schools of Antonello from Messina and Francisco Solimena,
Peter Neurons. The Museum has been prepared in atmospheres of the quattrocentesco Dominican Convent, that it accommodated great Tommaso
philosopher Little bell. Of baroque style Giacomo Apostolo with its splendid portale is the Church of S., in the more recent part of the village, the
patronale Church of S. Francisco di Paola and the former Convent of the friars Minimums, today center of the Municipality. To the feet of the
historical center, in one insenatura of the land, the small summery theatre, every center year of the Mediterranean Festival of the Two Seas. Still signs
of power, force and elegance in the Castle of the Ruffo-Sanseverino,dwellings of the feudatari of Altomonte and hour restores to you and to the
service of the culture and the tourist flows, next erge Torre Normanna today transformed in the prestigious center of the Museum Franco Azzinari ; stable
center of the artistic activities of the great calabrian painter.


