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Archeological nights in Tuscany

by admin on Jul 15, 2011 • View Comments

Archeological nights in Pisa, Livorno, Grosseto, Firenze, Siena and Arezzo

Etruscan

Tuscany Land of Etruria: museums and itineraries

by tuscanyarts on Jan 20, 2011 • View Comments

In the word “Tuscan” you can hear echoes of the word “Etruscan“, the ancient civilization that once lived here. Until September 2011 an inter-regional project called Terre degli Etruschi sees the collaboration of Tuscany with neighbouring...

Etruscan

Florence Archaeological Museum: 10 good reasons to go

by tuscanyarts on Oct 20, 2010 • View Comments

This is a guest post from Marina Lo Blundo, an archaeologist and travel lover who blogs about her travels around the world (in Italian though – see I viaggi di Marina e Lorenzo). I learned...

Etruscan

The Etruscans at Vetulonia

by tuscanyarts on Aug 25, 2010 • View Comments

While spending my summer holiday in the Maremma, one overcast morning we decided to skip the beach in favour of the Etruscan ruins at Vetulonia (just 10 minutes’ inland from the coast). I had not yet been to Vetulonia,...

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Etruscan Domus (house) discovered at Vetulonia

by tuscanyarts on May 27, 2010 • View Comments

Breaking news! Just days ago, archaeologists digging at the Tuscan town of Vetulonia discovered a fully intact Etruscan house (Domus). This is extremely significant because there are no other examples in Italy of the Etruscans’ domestic space...

Contemporary Art / Etruscan

Tuscan Artist Valerio Giovannini explores Etruscan roots

by tuscanyarts on May 26, 2010 • View Comments

Today I met Tuscan Artist Valerio Giovannini and we talked, amongst many things, about the Etruscans and how his art draws from them, his direct cultural ancestors. It’s not every day that you get to talk...

Etruscan / General Arts

Roselle: Roman Ruins in Maremma

by tuscanyarts on May 18, 2010 • View Comments

I had a few hours to spare in Maremma last weekend so I decided to visit the archaeological site of Roselle – just for a touch of culture, eh! At Roselle there’s quite a large excavated Roman town...

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Vie Cave: Another Etruscan Mystery

by tuscanyarts on May 4, 2010 • View Comments

vie cave from flickr user tadolo The vie cave [pronounced vee-ah cavay, meaning sunken roads] are these incredibly narrow paths that the Etruscans cut into mile-high tuff (tufa) stone. The other day I was looking through some printed...

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Get to know the Etruscans in Tuscany’s top 5 Etruscan Museums

by tuscanyarts on Feb 10, 2010 • View Comments

Ever noticed the similarities between the words “Etruscan” and “Tuscan”? The Etruscans are the civilization that inhabited this area before the Romans basically wiped them out. The Etruscans tended to settle in...