Museo di Palazzo La Rocca

Pacentro's town hall houses a museum in its entrance hall, with a Franciscan nativity by local artist Peppino Avolio, early public-lighting lamps, carved castle crests and cannonballs.

Why it matters

Since 2015 the municipality has used the entrance of Palazzo La Rocca, now the town hall, as a museum space for objects related to Pacentro's history. The collection includes a Franciscan nativity by local artist and sculptor Peppino Avolio, lamps associated with the village's public lighting, stone coats of arms of families who owned the castle, and cannonballs. The municipality dates the start of public lighting to a hydroelectric plant operating by 1907.

What to notice

The collection includes a Franciscan nativity by Peppino Avolio, associated with Pacentro's terracotta craft. Other objects include early public lamps, a beam scale once used to weigh firewood, stone coats of arms belonging to families who held Castello Caldora, and cannonballs.

Context and history

Palazzo La Rocca is one of Pacentro's historic residences and now serves as the town hall. The municipality converted its entrance into exhibition space in 2015. Objects associated with the Orsini, Colonna and Barberini families, municipal weighing, public lighting and Peppino Avolio's nativity sculpture bring together different periods of the town's history.