Campo Della Fiera. Sito Archeologico

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A wonderful site still under study and research, with 2000 years of history. From the Etruscans to the late Middle Ages passing through the Roman phase of Augustus and Hadrian it is through the early Middle Ages. Rich in events and edited by passionate and willing experts.

It is perhaps the most important sacred complex of the Etruscan civilization, it seems to have been the place where all the Etruscan populations met to make important decisions. A subsequent Roman settlement is also visible. The site is under study and open to visitors only at certain times of the year

Really interesting and very well organized

In this mystical European civilization, 2,500 years ago, women had the same rights as men, and this greatly irritated the Greeks and Romans. The Etruscans are tribes that inhabited part of ancient Italy. They created the first great civilization on the Apennine Peninsula, whose influence on the Romans became more and more obvious. It was the Etruscans who taught the Romans the alphabet and numbers, as well as many elements in architecture, art, religion and clothing. It was an Etruscan invention, and the Doric pillar of the Etruscan style became a major element of Renaissance and Classicist architecture. Ancient Etruria was located in central Italy, bounded on the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea (which the Greeks recognized early on as belonging to the Tyrrhēnoi people), on the north by the Arno River, and on the east and south by the Tiber River. This area largely coincides with today's Tuscany, and with parts of Lazio and Umbria. The main natural wealth of this area, which undoubtedly played an important role in Etruscan trade and urban development, were rich metal deposits, both in northern and southern Etruria. In the south, in the coastal area that stretched between the first large Etruscan cities of Tarquinii and Cera (now Cerveteri), the low mountains of Tolfa provided supplies of copper, iron and tin. The non-existence of Etruscan literature and the well-known bias and contradictory depictions of Etruscan history left to us by Greek and Roman writers create a situation in which a careful study of their visible remains is essential for understanding the Etruscans. Archaeological contexts and the remains themselves (including ceramics, metal objects, sculpture, painting, architecture, animal and human bones and the most insignificant objects of everyday life) are divided into the following three basic categories: funeral, urban and sacred (religious), although sometimes there is an overlap of these categories. By far the largest percentage of material is of a funeral nature; therefore, there is a lot of information about Etruscan ideas about the afterlife and their attitudes towards deceased members of their families. But there is no doubt that relatively poor information about Etruscan settlements is also of great importance. The remains of a well-preserved Etruscan city at the site of Marzabota (around 500 BC) near Bologna (which was probably an Etruscan colony) reveal that the Etruscans were among the first in the Mediterranean to organize the city according to a network plan: it was based on a main street to the north. south, intersected by one or more streets in an east-west direction. The rite associated with laying such foundations of the city was known to the Romans as ritus Etruscus ("Etruscan rite"). This system was mostly used by the Romans in laying the foundations for military camps and new cities, and it can still be seen in many European cities. It seems that in Etruria such strictly organized urban plans were rare, because one often encounters an irregular scheme, which arose as a result of the merging of villages during the Vilanovo culture and which was adapted to the hills, which were mostly chosen for places where founded cities. Once a year, citizens would gather at FanumU, the holiest refuge in Etruria. The Greeks and Romans were especially annoyed by the behavior of women, as well as their rights, which almost equated them with men. That was unacceptable to them. Everyone who would notice the women in the audience was surprised. In fact, Etruscan women enjoyed much more freedom and autonomy than women in Greece or Rome. The women and daughters of Etruria had the freedom to own, inherit and transfer property as they saw fit. During the festive feasts, they celebrated together with the men. Unlike them, others were not ashamed to drink with Greek women, who were generally expected not to drink alcohol. Etruscan cities maintained a strong culture, and resolved disputes within the community. The end of the 6th and the beginning of the 5th century was a turning point for the Etruscan civilization. At that time, several crises broke out, from which the Etruscans never fully recovered, and which, as it turned out, were in fact only the beginning of numerous misfortunes.

Beautiful, unique experience there had never happened to visit an archaeological site of this magnitude with the excavations in progress we very probably tracked down a manager who has been our guide in these wonders, to visit absolutely!