Set out on a half day tour to explore and discover the Etruscan world. Experience a unique and exceptional testimony of the ancient Etruscan civilization - the largest ancient necropolis in the Mediterranean. A masterpiece of creative genius that reveals aspects of life, death and religious beliefs of the ancient Etruscans, and declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. A Must See!
Pick up from your cruise ship, hotel or villa, in or out of Rome. After a panoramic drive we'll visit a unique and exceptional testimony to the ancient Etruscan civilization - the largest ancient necropolis in the Mediterranean. We'll explore a real city with streets and tumulus tombs arranged like houses with entrance corridors, rooms with frescoes, plaster reliefs of mythological figures; all merged in a beautiful green and rocky landscaped. We'll enter the necropolis of Cerveteri which shows in a funerary context the same town planning and architectural schemes used in an ancient city:
We'll walk along several streets with huge tumuli up to 30m/99ft in diameter, tomb chambers hewn from the rock in the form of dwelling-houses, often with several rooms, with frescoes and plaster decorations;
Amongst others, we will visit the famous Tomb of Reliefs, the most beautiful one of the thousands tombs found here.
The Underwold Way - we'll visit the wildest parts of the area to admire part of their carved roads into the tufa stone and to see a unique location, really out of the ordinary world.
We will explore the most important typologies of tombs hewn into the tuff from the 9th to the 2nd century B. C;
Enoy and breathe the local landscape: large vineyards, tufa hills, Mediterranean trees and the Thyrrenian Sea
This tour can easily be customized upon request. It could easily be extended to a full day.
