Cerveteri
Cerveteri is a town of 36,165 inhabitants of the Italian province of Rome, ancient city of Latium, which dates back to the Etruscan and Roman. It overlooks the Tyrrhenian Sea and is located 42 km away from Rome.
You access away from Cerveteri Etruscan necropolis of Sorbo and the Etruscan necropolis of Banditaccia, one of the most monumental necropolis in the Mediterranean Sea, declared in 2004 by 'UNESCO, along with that of Tarquinia, a world heritage site. Its name comes from Caere Vetus, so called in the thirteenth century. The city of Cerveteri has a long history, probably dating from the mid-ninth century BC, as some have pointed out that archaeological research has revealed the presence of stable employment in the area with its Etruscan tombs and settlements.
Etruscan archaeological sites of interest:
• Officially, appears for the first time in history, because of the Sardinian Sea battle, which took place in 540 BC In the following centuries as an agricultural center and resize it, only in the twentieth century, as a tourist and archaeological interest. Necropolis of Banditaccia: complex of tombs Etruscan necropolis is one of the most important for the beauty and grandeur of the tombs and the importance of the findings rinvenutivi; of particular value to the Sarcophagus of the Spouses is now in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia Rome.
• Way of the Underworld: road artery is deeply excavated in the tufa, which was created by the walls of the city of Caere to put the city of the living into communication with the great necropolis of Banditaccia. It is a place of deep, dark suggestion.
• crib Necropolis of Sant'Angelo
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