Around 1700 prince Carlo Maria Sanseverino rebuilt the family palace and put inside it twelve apartments and a theatre, 'graceful for musical dramas and comedies': he was an enthusiast, and wrote musical comedies himself. One of them, Eliododro, he had performed for the wedding of his daughter Aurora.
Of the palace only the court hall is still standing; the stable, reached from the steccato, held a hundred and twenty-two horses. The town was called Saponaria until 1863 and Saponara di Grumento until 1932, when it took its name from the Roman city next door: Grumentum, whose remains can be visited along with the archaeological museum of the Alta Val d'Agri. There are 1,704 residents.
Grumentum · Museo nazionale dell'Alta Val d'Agri · Teatro romano di Grumento Nova and 1 more
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Next up: Saint Laverius and the Madonna del Monserrato, Tuesday 17 November
Nearest airport: Bari Palese, 120 km away
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📅 Every year, Saint Laverius on 17 November; the Madonna del Monserrato on the last Sunday of August
Grumento Nova celebrates the Madonna del Monserrato on the last Sunday of August and Saint Laverius on 17 November: the day the saint, born in Acerenza, died a martyr at Grumentum in 312.
Grumentum Hannibal was beaten below these walls in 207 BC; Lucania's only amphitheatre stands here. 
Museo nazionale dell'Alta Val d'Agri Elephant tusks, Oenotrian spiral armlets and a portrait of Livia, over two floors. 
Teatro romano di Grumento Nova Half-excavated in 1951, the Augustan theatre was restored only between 1964 and 1968. 
chiesa di Sant'Antonino Martire An inscription of 1118 already names it; below lie the remains of a temple of Serapis. Straight-line distances from the town centre. Tap a point to open its page.
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Outside Grumento Nova, but an easy day trip away.
