Art Museum
Apollonia
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Apollonia is an art museum in San Fratello, Italy.
About Apollonia
Apollonia (Greek: Ἀπολλωνία) was an ancient city of Magna Graecia in Sicily, which, according to Stephanus of Byzantium, was situated in the neighbourhood of Aluntium and Calacte.
The city was founded by Dionysius I of Syracuse as an outpost against the Carthaginians.
Cicero also mentions it in conjunction with Haluntium, Capitium, and Enguium, in a manner that seems to imply that it was situated in the same part of Sicily with these cities, and Diodorus states that it was at one time subject to Leptines the tyrant of Enguium from whose hands it was wrested by Timoleon in 342 BC and restored to independency.
A little later we find it again mentioned among the cities reduced by Agathocles after his return from Africa in 307 BC.
Apollonia by the numbers
- Visitors / year
- 3,381
Museums near Apollonia
- National Museum Naples National Archaeological Museum Naples, Italy
- Art Museum Palace of Caserta Caserta, Italy
- Museum of the Royal Palace of Caserta Caserta, Italy
- Art Museum Capitoline Museums Rome, Italy
- Art Museum Vatican Museums Vatican City, Vatican City
- Art Museum Pinacoteca Vaticana Vatican City, Vatican City
