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CERVETERI E TARQUINIA – Le Necropoli Etrusche

"Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia"

The necropolises of Tarquinia and Cerveteri are masterpieces of creative genius. Tarquinia's large-scale wall paintings are exceptional both for their formal qualities and for their content, which reveal aspects of life, death, and religious beliefs of the ancient Etruscans.
Cerveteri shows in a funerary context the same town planning and architectural schemes used in an ancient city.
The two necropolises constitute a unique and exceptional testimony to the ancient Etruscan civilisation, the only urban type of civilisation in pre-Roman Italy. Moreover, the depiction of daily life in the frescoed tombs, many of which are replicas of Etruscan houses, is a unique testimony to this vanished culture.
Many of the tombs of Tarquinia and Cerveteri represent types of buildings which no longer exist in any other form. The cemeteries, replicas of Etruscan town planning schemes, are some of the earliest existing in the region.

Inscription on the Unseco World Heritage List: 2004

Criteria for Acceptance into the Unesco World Heritage List
Id. n. 1158 2004 C (i) (iii) (iv)

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