Sara Santoro Bianchi (1950–2016) was an Italian archaeologist, classical scholar and educator. She is remembered for her collaboration in projects focusing on the Insula del Centenario in

Pompeii Pompeii (, ) was an ancient city located in what is now the ''comune'' of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried ...

, Castelraimondo del Fiuli, Bliesbruck on the French-German border, and the excavation of the

Amphitheatre of Durrës The Amphitheatre of Durrës ( sq, Amfiteatri i Durrësit; la, Amphitheatrum Dyrrhachinum) is a Roman amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Durrës, Albania. Construction began under the emperor Trajan in the 2nd century AD and it was destroye ...

in Albania. She has served as director of the Archaeological Museum of Bazzano, Province of Bologna, and as a professor of archaeology and Greek and Roman art at the University of Parma and at the

D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara D'Annunzio University ( it, Università degli Studi "Gabriele d'Annunzio", Ud'A) is a public research university located in Chieti and Pescara, neighbouring cities in the region of Abruzzo, Italy. Established in 1960 as a higher education insti ...

Biography

Born in

Seregno Seregno (; lmo, label= Brianzoeu, Seregn ) is a town and ''comune'' of the new Province of Monza and Brianza in the Italian region of Lombardy. Seregno received the honorary title of city with a presidential decree on 26 January 1979. It is ser ...

, Milan, on 28 August 1950, Sara Santoro studied classics at the University of Bologna where she met Massimo Bianchi (born 1946), an economics professor. The two married in January 1970 and had three children together: Sergio, Marco and Andrea. After graduating in 1973, she undertook research in the university's department of archaeology from 1975. From 1997 to 2009, she was associate professor of archaeology and Greek and Roman art at the University of Parma. She was then appointed professor of classical architecture at the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara (2009–2016). In 1988, Santoro managed excavations of the fortified settlement of Castelraimondo del Friuli with the support of the European Interreg initiative. This culminated in the development of a cultural park. Working in collaboration with the University of Bologna, from 1998 to 2005 she was scientific manager of the Insula del Centenario project in Pompeii. She was also director of the University of Parma's Durres project aimed at protecting the archaeological heritage of Durrës in Albania. In 2008, together with the French archaeologist Jean-Paul Petit, Santoro participated in excavations of the extensive Mediomatrici site covering the area from Reinheim in the German Saarland to Bliesbruck in the French department

Moselle The Moselle ( , ; german: Mosel ; lb, Musel ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it jo ...

. Sara Santoro Bianhi died in Chieti on 22 September 2016 and is buried in Cesena.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Santoro, Sara 1950 births 2016 deaths People from Seregno Italian women archaeologists 20th-century Italian archaeologists Italian classical scholars University of Bologna alumni Academic staff of the University of Parma Academic staff of the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara