When in Rome: Etruscans

Today we traveled about an hour and a half outside of Rome to see the Etruscan cities Tarquinia and Caere! Cities may be too generous....it was really just tombs that were really interesting and a small museum in Tarquinia. In Tarquinia the tombs were down below the ground and had some beautiful frescoes that I attempted to take pictures of but it was through a plate of glass so it was kinda 50/50 if they came out.

tomb of the leopards. this was my favorite.

I don't remember the name but this picture came out good haha

me and my friends

After looking at all the tombs we went to the Tarquinia museum which was small because it was a 15th century villa turned into a museum but it still had some really neat stuff.

pretty courtyard of villa transformed into museum.

an ash urn shaped like a hut!

all that survives of a massive Etruscan temple.

sarcophagi

After the museum we got to have a long lunch break and walk around the town which had some beautiful views!

After Tarquinia we hopped back on the bus and went Caere to see some more tombs! these were built up about the ground as large mounds and weren't painted pretty like the others but were still really cool to walk through!

tomb