Tag: Travel
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Vulci – Etruscan and Roman Ruins
We spent a day hiking around in the ruins of Vulci, originally an Etruscan city (VI century BCE), later (II century CE) the site Roman villa. Bits and pieces of the Etrurian temple and city walls remain, enough that archeologists have a fair idea of the extents of the city. The Roman villa was relatively…
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Civita di Bagnoregio. Population Eleven
Near Orvieto is the borgo of Civita di Bagnoregio. The oldest part (Civita) sits perched on a pinnacle in the middle of a canyon. A near-perfect example of a hilltop city. Access to the city was originally via a donkey path along the saddle connecting Civita to Bagnoregio. Today the saddle has eroded away and…
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Borgo, Borghi & Necropoli
We’re still hitting random villages in the Tarquina/Tuscana/Viterbo area. A couple of days ago we drove up to Vitorchiano – a hilltop borgo (village) just off a main highway near Viterbo. It’s very characteristic of the borgo in this area – narrow, winding streets, houses perched at the edge of steep cliffs of volcanic tufo.…
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Barbarano Romano
We took a short drive to the borgo of Barbarano Romano – a small village in the hills to the southeast of our home base near Tarquinia. The village was occupied as early as the late bronze age (17th-18th centuries BCE), during the Etruscan era and again in the middle ages. The city walls and…
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Tuscania
The nearby city of Tuscania was once an Etruscan city and currently the home of two eighth/ninth century Romanesque churches. We drove the 30km to the city, went in circles for a half hour looking for parking, and finally found a lot on precisely the opposite side of the city from the two churches. A…
Michael Janke 