Location: Viterbo Province in Italy
Nearest Airport:
Rome at 95
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Nearest Ferry:
Civitavecchia at 21
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Nearest Train:
Tarquinia at 11
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Nearest Motorway:
SS1 at 8
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Nearest Beach:
beach at 10.0
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Other areas to visit are Vulic, Norchia, Tuscania, Pitigliano, Sorano, Saturnia, Sutri, Cecveteri, Castro-following a landslide the village was destroyed in 1949 and the Bells from the Cathedral were transferred to Rome by Lady Olimpia Maidalchini to the church of S.Agnes in Piazza Navona.
The Land of the Etruscan D.H.Lawance wrote a book called Etruscan Places. If you have read the book you will know all about Tarquinia and its tombs which are highly painted. Tarquinia a few miles inland from the sea.
This area was once a metropolis Etruria chief city of great League but it died like other Etruscan cities and had a more or less rebirth with a new name, as it was known for centuries as Corneto - Corgnetum or Cornetium and forgotten was its Etruscan past. Then there was a feeble sort of wakening to remembrance a 150 years ago and the town got Tarquinia tacked on to its Corneto; the town is once more simply Tarquinia.