The exposition ‘Ancient Cartography of Italy’ will be opened today at 18,30, a collection of almost 200 ancient maps of Italy made between the xv and the xx century, in the Victorian Complex of Italy. Together with the images of the first Ptolemaic maps and the first map of Italy pressed in 1478, there will be exposed also ‘ The Tabula Peutingeriana’, a Costantian map of the iv century which represents the itinerary of the trip inside the Roman Empire.
Satirical maps tell about the political tensions in Europe between the ’8oo and the ’9oo, and the maps of Italian ‘Panorama Italiano’ of the 1861, the strong piece of the show(organized just in conclusion of the 150 anniversary of the Union of Italy)wanted by Cavour to party the birth of the New State. The exposition will be freely opened to the people from next Wednesday to the 4th March 2012.
