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Extract from the Policoro Travel Guides:
There's a collection of antiquities at the
Museo Nazionale della Siritide
, 25km down the coast, just behind the village of
POLICORO
. The museum (daily 9am-6pm; L5000/2.58) contains clay figurines and jewel-bedecked skeletons among other material taken from the zone between the Sinni and Agri rivers, in its time one of the richest areas on this coast and site of the two Greek colonies of
Siris
and
Heraclea
. The first of these, after which the museum is named, reached such a position of wealth and eminence that the other colonies were persuaded to gang together in the middle of the...
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