Palazzo Pantaleo
Pantaleo Palace
Noble palaces
the palace
The representative office of the Municipal Administration is housed in the building that belonged to the Pantaleo barons. It is one of the few remaining intact eighteenth-century buildings in Taranto, located in the area where the ancient port used to be.
It has a harmonious facade with wrought iron balconies overlooking the Mar Grande. A large portal leads to the main floor passing through the main staircase with vaults decorated with 18th century stuccoes, probably of Neapolitan inspiration. The halls retain sumptuous ceilings with drawings on canvas and paper and majolica floors from the late 1700s. The elegant doors date back to the same period, which the recent restoration has brought back to their original vermilion color, enriched with gold moldings. The most important municipal receptions and events take place in Palazzo Pantaleo.
the museum
Palazzo Pantaleo is an 18th century building and is the seat of the Alfredo Majorano Ethnographic Museum.
In the museum there are various testimonies of the popular traditions of the city of Taranto and its province, collected by Alfredo Majorano (1902-1984). Much of the material was donated by the scholar to the Municipality of Taranto starting from 1978 and then by the widow in more recent years. The rich collection has as its main theme the magical-religious rituality in the Taranto area. The leitmotif of Alfredo Majorano's ethnographic collection is housed in the rooms of the second noble floor of Palazzo Pantaleo and revolves around the magical and religious rituals of Taranto. The abundance of materials that make it up document traditional life in Tarantino: from the world of festivities and magical-religious rituals it expands to document all the other ways of local associated life and, first of all, the secular ones of fatigue, to land and sea.
The museum collects important documents of the intangible cultural heritage, such as the recordings of the pizzica made by Majorano in the fifties and other testimonies on the phenomenon of tarantism, studied by the ethnologist Ernesto De Martino.
the palace
The representative office of the Municipal Administration is housed in the building that belonged to the Pantaleo barons. It is one of the few remaining intact eighteenth-century buildings in Taranto, located in the area where the ancient port used to be.
It has a harmonious facade with wrought iron balconies overlooking the Mar Grande. A large portal leads to the main floor passing through the main staircase with vaults decorated with 18th century stuccoes, probably of Neapolitan inspiration. The halls retain sumptuous ceilings with drawings on canvas and paper and majolica floors from the late 1700s. The elegant doors date back to the same period, which the recent restoration has brought back to their original vermilion color, enriched with gold moldings. The most important municipal receptions and events take place in Palazzo Pantaleo.
the museum
Palazzo Pantaleo is an 18th century building and is the seat of the Alfredo Majorano Ethnographic Museum.
In the museum there are various testimonies of the popular traditions of the city of Taranto and its province, collected by Alfredo Majorano (1902-1984). Much of the material was donated by the scholar to the Municipality of Taranto starting from 1978 and then by the widow in more recent years. The rich collection has as its main theme the magical-religious rituality in the Taranto area. The leitmotif of Alfredo Majorano's ethnographic collection is housed in the rooms of the second noble floor of Palazzo Pantaleo and revolves around the magical and religious rituals of Taranto. The abundance of materials that make it up document traditional life in Tarantino: from the world of festivities and magical-religious rituals it expands to document all the other ways of local associated life and, first of all, the secular ones of fatigue, to land and sea.
The museum collects important documents of the intangible cultural heritage, such as the recordings of the pizzica made by Majorano in the fifties and other testimonies on the phenomenon of tarantism, studied by the ethnologist Ernesto De Martino.
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Guided tour
Have you already visited Palazzo Pantaleo and the Majorano Museum? The guided tour starts with the description of the Palace, an example of an 18th century noble residence and its architectural and decorative features and continues with the examination of the Ethnographic Collection with particular focus on the figure of Alfredo Majorano
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Il Museo organizza eventi culturali volti alla promozione della conoscenza delle tradizioni popolari del territorio, anche in collaborazione con altri Musei, Associazioni ed Istituti culturali. Negli anni sono stati realizzati eventi su temi specifici, ad esempio sul tarantismo o sulle tradizioni natalizie, o in occasione di importanti momenti della vita culturale della città come per il 59° Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia.
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Pantaleo Palace
Noble palaces
the palace
The representative office of the Municipal Administration is housed in the building that belonged to the Pantaleo barons. It is one of the few remaining intact eighteenth-century buildings in Taranto, located in the area where the ancient port used to be.
It has a harmonious facade with wrought iron balconies overlooking the Mar Grande. A large portal leads to the main floor passing through the main staircase with vaults decorated with 18th century stuccoes, probably of Neapolitan inspiration. The halls retain sumptuous ceilings with drawings on canvas and paper and majolica floors from the late 1700s. The elegant doors date back to the same period, which the recent restoration has brought back to their original vermilion color, enriched with gold moldings. The most important municipal receptions and events take place in Palazzo Pantaleo.
the museum
Palazzo Pantaleo is an 18th century building and is the seat of the Alfredo Majorano Ethnographic Museum.
In the museum there are various testimonies of the popular traditions of the city of Taranto and its province, collected by Alfredo Majorano (1902-1984). Much of the material was donated by the scholar to the Municipality of Taranto starting from 1978 and then by the widow in more recent years. The rich collection has as its main theme the magical-religious rituality in the Taranto area. The leitmotif of Alfredo Majorano's ethnographic collection is housed in the rooms of the second noble floor of Palazzo Pantaleo and revolves around the magical and religious rituals of Taranto. The abundance of materials that make it up document traditional life in Tarantino: from the world of festivities and magical-religious rituals it expands to document all the other ways of local associated life and, first of all, the secular ones of fatigue, to land and sea.
The museum collects important documents of the intangible cultural heritage, such as the recordings of the pizzica made by Majorano in the fifties and other testimonies on the phenomenon of tarantism, studied by the ethnologist Ernesto De Martino.
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Vicolo Civico, Taranto
museoetnograficomajorano.it
turismo-museion@libero.it
099 458 1726
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