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(Source: Costa degli Etruschi Tourist Information Office)
History and archeology live in the pristine landscape of the Archeological Park that runs the 80 acres from the Piombino headlands to the Gulf of Baratti. The park is filled with Etruscan and Roman tombs and constructions that emerge from the Mediterranean brush against the clear azure sea. Populonia, one of the principle Etruscan cities (the only one on the coast), dominated the seaside beginning at Poggio di Castello. The industrial area was located in the Gulf of Baratti, near the port. Its territory consisted of the hills that surround the gulf and continue south towards the Piombino headlands downhill to a wide plain surrounded by the Campigliese mountains.
The city was founded by the fusion of various villages during the Iron Age, each of which had their own necropolis with different styles of tombs which contained decorative personal objects, vases and weapons. The richest tombs document the economic and social ascension of certain families, which became more evident during the 7th century when the tombs became monumental objects containing kitchen tools, grooming devices, ceremonial objects and so forth. Phoenician plates and Greek-Oriental vases were some of the most precious objects. A visit to the park includes educational panels that document Populonia's history, the San Cerbone monumental necropolis and the Necropolis “delle Grotte” (4th century BC). Beginning in the spring of 2007, the park includes the Populonia acropolis and its temples, thermal baths and the medieval San Quirico monastery.
Hours:
Mar-Apr-May-Oct: Tues-Sun 10/18.
June-Sept: Tues-Sun 10/19.
July-Aug: every day 10/19.
Jan, Feb, Nov, Dec: Sat-Sun and holidays 10/16; Tues-Fri group reservations
Dec: closed from 9 to 26.
Price:
15,00 € for 3 sites (Necropoli S. Cerbone, Necropoli delle Grotte, Acropoli); reduced 6/14 years old and over 65 years old 10,00 €; family 39,00 €.
2 sites: 12,00 €, reduced 9,00 €, family 32 €.
1 site 9 €, reduced 5 €.
Handicap access:
PARTIAL
Contact:
Località Baratti
Populonia
PIOMBINO (LIVORNO)
Tel: 0565 29002
E-mail: promo@parchivaldicornia.it, parcobp@parchivaldicornia.it
/www.parchivaldicornia.it/
