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Tarquinia : Etruscan Necropolis
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Etruscan necropolis. The first takeovers go back to protovillanoviano period (XI-x sec. a.C.) but in the IX sec. a.C the center only acquires importance testified from the wealth of the equipments recovered in the organized necropoli with tombe to sink in the IX and in the VIII sec. and to fossa in the VIII sec. a.C. Around to the half of the VIII sec. a.C the inhabitants concentrate themselves progressively on the Hill of the Civita with the consequent abandonment of the zone of Monterozzi that will come destined to cimiteriale area. In the successive orientalizzante period the city grows remarkablly is under the city aspect that economic and that comes found also from the interments whose tipologia, in the WAYS sec. a.C., is with tombe to room ipogee with the lateral dock for the deposition of the defunct ones covered from time ogive, to proviste times of a vestibolo. To the same age they go back the tombe to cassone destined to one only interment in one wide fossa lined of local stone slabs (macco or nenfro). Regarding the others important necropoli of the Etruscan area, like Vejo and Vulci, the orientalizzante period of Tarquinia introduces the less sfarzosa way, less rich the equipments, had to the predominant figure of Caere that was prevailed on all the territory, embezzling traffics trades them to the area.Tarquinia towards the end of the WAYS sec. constructed to the Port of Gravisca thanks to which they increase the traffics trades them and the rich Greek traders disembark to Tarquinia. The economic increase will influence also the interments; to YOU Sec. goes back the tombe painted of the necropoi of Monterozzi and already constitutes an extraordinary collection of images that document to the life of the Etruschi. catching up a high advanced artistic level to the other Etruscan metropoli. Until the 530 a.C. pittoriche images they mostly follow to decorative scope heraldic reasons and subsequently made of daily life fundamentalally legacies to the ceremony of interment of the defunct one, banquets, dances, and you play, avolte notice images tied to the hunting that venniva only carried out from the aristocratic families In the 510 a.C. it came hunted from Rome the last Etruscan king, Arrogant Tarquinio, and with the defeat of the war endured in the crash with the siracusani to Cuma, in the 474 begins the crisis that will influence all the Etruscan area. In this period, in fact, famous a insufficient expression that will last for all the V sec. With the beginning of IV sec. a.C. famous one strongly resumption economic and Tarquinia a remarkable superiority regarding the other cities is caught up succeeding to support the sucessive and numerous battles against Rome that will last to along. In the 281 a.C. Tarquinia comes definitively submitted from Rome and succesivamente it begins the true decline. In the IV sec. d.C. the city becomes episcopal center but it comes gradually abandoned from the inhabitants in order to escape to the violent barbaric invasions. In the WAYS sec d.C. by now the population is all on the hill where today rises puts into effect it them city. The necropoli Etruscan, exiting from the city in direction of Monteromano, on the Monterozzi hill, find the necropoli with approximately seimila tombe of every shape and dimension, many di.le which completely painted. For information: Tel 0766-856308. The Civita, to approximately 2 km, in Monteromano direction, to the end of the aqueduct Roman, turns on the left and continuations the indications until arriving on the hill where the rests of the ancient comprised city are visible Ara of the Queen, an enormous  constructed base in order to support a majestic one tempio, where they have been recovered the famous exposed winged horses in the museum of the city. Timetable: from the 9.00 to an hour before the sunset. You go up some, to 7 km approximately find the ancient bathtubs for the production of knows them, where puttinges came to work the prisoners. For the beauty of the places, far from the chaos of the shoreline, this zone has become plows protect, where many birds, between allocate them and migratory, they find shelter: aironi, garzette, ducks, cormorani, hawks.Leaving the town, heading towards Monteromano, you can find a necropolis where numberless tombs, many of which are completely decorated, were found. Tel. (+39) 0766-856308. Three kilometers away from the town, heading towards Monteromano, turn left and follow road signs, then get to a hill where the remnants of the ancient town are visible, including the Queen's altar (Ara della Regina), an enormous basement that was built to support an imposing temple, where the famous winged horses shown in the city's museum were found. Le Saline; 7 kilometers far from the town, the ancient salt-works, where prisoners were forced to work, are visible. Due to the beauty of the place, the area has become a protected reserve. |
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