CERVETERI & THE ETRUSCAN NECROPOLIS
Discover a very mysterious civilization which prospered
before the days of the ancient Rome. The necropolis has been declared
Unesco World Heritage site! It is the largest in the Mediterranean
with a total of 1000 tombs organized in a city like plan, with streets
and neighbourhoods! The only surviving evidence of Etruscan residential
architecture, the site contains very different types of tombs cut
in rock and topped by impressive tumuli (burial mounds), with carvings
on the walls and paintings! At 45 minutes from Rome, in proximity
of Civitavecchia port.
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