Hypogea Hall

A conference centre and venue for conferences, conventions, seminars, exhibitions, book presentations and cultural projects, Teramo's Hypogea Hall is a six-hundred-square-metre underground hall for cultural activities. Located between the access to the historic centre on Corso San Giorgio and the Pinacoteca Civica adjacent to the Villa Comunale on Piazza Garibaldi, one of the city's most important squares, the Hypogea Hall offers an underground route that is unique in the city.

In the smaller of the two rooms of which the overall project for the Hypogeum of Teramo was originally composed, a section dedicated to local sculptors Venanzo Crocetti and Raffaello Pagliaccetti was inaugurated in 2013, which is now disused.

Work on the Teramo Hypogeum Hall, which began in 2008, entailed the removal of the historic fountain in Piazza Garibaldi, replaced by a modern-style structure below which it is possible to see inside the hall located in the subway and bordered on the perimeter by glass windows that allow passers-by to watch the events hosted there from the outside. Initially, a sphere by the artist Silvio Mastrodascio was placed above the roof of the Hypogea Hall, which was relocated in 2011 at a new road junction, the Lotto Zero in the Porta Romana area.

Teramo's Hypogea Hall has been hosting conferences, exhibitions and events of various kinds since 2016.

In 2022, a conference was held to illustrate the new SottoSopra project, conceived for a rebirth of the hall starting from the surface structure overlooking Piazza Garibaldi up to the involvement of the space below, thanks to which the Hypogea Hall will reconfirm itself as a cultural space at the service of citizenship, increasingly inclusive and in step with the times.