Category: 5. History, Art and Culture

Etruscan era The ancient city (urbs vetus in Latin, whence “Orvieto”), populated since Etruscan times, has usually been associated with Etruscan Velzna, but some modern scholars differ. Orvieto was certainly a major centre of...

Civita was founded by Etruscans more than 2,500 years ago. Civita was the birthplace of Saint Bonaventure, who died in 1274.By the 16th century, Civita beginned to decline, becoming eclipsed by its former suburb...

According to the legend, Tuscania was founded by Aeneas’ son, Ascanius, where he had found twelve dog pups (whence the Etruscan name Tus–Cana, cana being similar to Latin canis for “dog”). Evidence of human...

The name of the city derives from that of the Falisci (Mons Faliscorum, “Mountain of the Falisci”). Later, it was controlled by the Etruscans. It was suggested that Montefiascone occupied the site of the...

The Hermitage of Poggio Conte (also known as St. Columban) was near the customs between the Pontifical Territories and Tuscany. The first written traces of the site were  founded in an ancient map of...

Castro was the capital city of the ancient duchy that took its name. It was destroyed in 1649 by the pontifical militias; in the area we can find things dating back to prehistoric times....

Built by Leopold II of Lorraine, the pyramid lies at the back of “Ponte tura”, at the end of a tree-lined avenue, where there is also a Terrace overlooking the loop of the Ombrone River....

  The garden created by the collector Mario Ciulli in memory of his father Roberto (1919-1997), welcomes more than 20 sculptures by Italian and foreign authors in figurative forms or abstract geometries, in materials...

  The history of Vetulonia begins between the tenth and eleventh centuries BC then in the final period of the Iron Age and the beginning of the Villanovan – Etruscan period. Here two distinct...

The Temple of Talamonaccio, was built by the Etruscans in the IV century. B.C. in honor of the god Tinia and a goddess, but for which we do not know the name. Was more...