Set out on an exclusive tour to explore and discoverthe Etruscan world, a medieval village with caslte at the sound of music and the taste of Italian wine.
Visit the vast Necropolises of Cerveteri, a UNESCO Arhcelogical World Heritage Site. Explore a real city with streets and tumulus tombs arranged like houses with entrance corridors , rooms with frescoes like the Tomb of Rilievi decorated with plaster reliefs of mythological figures.
Enjoy a romantic walk around the beautiful Village and Castle of Santa Severa built on the ancient site of Pyrgi, the Etruscan harbour.I n the centuries the first establishment was modified until it assumed the actual aspect that represents a real mediaeval village with its castle on the water-front. On the way back to the ship struck by the landscape: large vineyards, tufa hills, Mediterranean trees and the Thyrrenian Sea.IN DETAIL
Your Half Day tour will start right outside your Cruise ship’s gangway at Civitavecchia. A private luxury vehicle equipped with AC will take you to the heart of the Etruscan region with a short panoramic drive through the green hilly landscape shaped with olive groves and vineyard, and the Mediterranean Sea.
visit the vast Necropolis of Cerveteri, wich is a real city with streets and tumulus tombs arranged like houses with entrance corridors, rooms with frescoes like the Tomb of Riliefs decorated with plaster reliefs of mythological figures.We enter the necropolises of Cerveteri which shows in a funerary context the same town planning and architectural schemes used in an ancient city. It constitute a unique and exceptional testimony to the ancient Etruscan civilization and it is the largest ancient necropolis in the Mediterranean area.This archeological site is a masterpiece of creative genius that reveals aspects of life, death, and religious beliefs of the ancient Etruscans and has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site.
We will explorethe most important typologies of tombs from the IX to the II century B.C. It covers an area of 400 ha encompassing a total of 1,000 tombs often housed in characteristic mounds. On either side of a "main street" some 2km/1.5mi long, with a number of side streets, lie hundreds of tombs, including huge tumuli up to 30m/99ft in diameter and many tomb chambers hewn from the rock in the form of dwelling-houses, often with several rooms, with frescoes like the Tomb of Rilievi decorated with plaster reliefs of mythological figures.
We’ll then proceed to the village and castle of Santa Severa to continue with a charming walk through the courtyards of the little village and around its elegant castle who both take their names from the Christian martyr of the 2nd century. This is one of the most important areas of local historical and tourist interest of the Tyrrhenian coast. It occupies the area of the ancient site of Pyrgi, the Etruscan harbour town in following the ancient Caere (Cerveteri). In the centuries the first establishment was modified until it assumed the actual aspect that represents a real mediaeval village.The village includes a small medieval burgh with a 9th century castle facing the sea and built right on top the Etruscan port of Pyrgi. The Pyrgi Tablets were found here in 1964. The Castle also hosts a Civic Museum that deals entirely with the sea and the ancient ways of navigating, and shows through original findings and reconstructed models, different aspects of the way of life of these people "on the sea and for the sea".
The historical-cultural point of view is not the only reason to come here! On the way back to your floating hotel you will be struck by the landscape: large vineyards, tufa hills, and the Mediterraneas Sea.
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