Villa Giulia Museum in ROME, an essential visit to understand the Etruria Laziale and the connections between Etruscans and Romans. The National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome, founded in 1889 to gather together all the pre-Roman antiquities of Latium, southern Etruria and Umbria belonging to the Etruscan and Falisca civilizations, is a museum dedicated to the Etruscan civilization. The most famous treasure is the Gravestone made of terracotta, the "Sarcophagus of the Spouses", which represents a married couple to almost life-size, which lies in a bright friendly posture or as in a symposium. Other important treasures held are:
The Pyrgi Tablets (three documents inscribed on gold plates, of considerable historical linguistic interest for archeology, which are considered among the first italian written sources)
The Apollo of Veii (a painted terracotta sculpture of the late sixth century B.C., attributed to the Etruscan sculptor Vulca)
Remainings of the Etruscan temple of Alatri and its reconstruction
An alto-rilievo from the pediment of the Temple "A" of Pyrgi (Latin name of the Etruscan village that once stood on the coast near the present Santa Severa Castle) with scenes from the myth of the Seven Against Thebes with Tydeus who eats the brain of Melanippus.
The Barberini, Castellani and Pesciotti Collections
The Ficoroni Cista (bronze jewelry casket cylindrically shaped decorated)