| 
| 
| ETRURIA LAZIALE INCOMING |
BLERA, one of the most important internal Etruria villages, is a small village perched on a high spur of tuff, at the confluence of two streams. During ancient times, especially during the sixth century B.C., due to its location at the center of a crossroads linking Cerveteri and Tarquinia to internal Etruria, Blera went through a period of great economic prosperity, as witnessed today by the vast Necropolises surrounding it, particularly those that exhibit architecturally valuable rock tombs.
Due to the process of Romanization of this part of Etruria, which took place during the third century B.C., in the area all around Blera began a new period of prosperity as determined by the construction of the Via Clodia, one of the main arteries of the Roman road system, which remained in use throughout the High Middle Ages.
Interesting is the archaeological zone named San Giovenale, located along the road to the small villages of Monteromano and Civitella Cesi. San Giovenale evokes the memories of Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, to whom we owe numerous excavations in the fifties and sixties of last century. They are the remainings of an Etruscan village of the Archaic period and the vast Necropolis of VII-V century B.C.. Not to be missed the “Experimental Archaeology Park” opened by the “Antiquitates” Center at Civitella Cesi.
| < Prec. | Succ. > |
|---|