OUT OF TOWN

In Lazio Maremma, overlooking Tyrrhenian Sea, Etruscan town of Vulci was born in the mists of time of the first Italic civilization. Town reaches its peak during Villanovan between IX and VIII century BC. Subsequently, the city was destroyed by Roman Empire.
We are in western part of Viterbo’s province, along the Fiora river, which overlooks majestic bridge called "of Devil", the third century BC, from its 30 meters. As soon as you reach the entrance of Volsci’s residence, remains’s storage of dilapidated buildings disappears by common imaginary, but it opens before our eyes much more.
Today, in fact, precisely in the area of the necropolis, eponymous archaeological naturalist Park extends along 960 hectares.

Prehistoric forest, Etruscan necropolis, fortified feud, bishop seat, site of Community interest, depopulated village. Ancient city of Monterano, now abandoned, in the countryside around Rome, was all this over the centuries. At the center of a place declared Regional Nature Reserve, it, still, stands in the eyes of visitors to the third millennium with its buildings, or at least what it is, full of history and charm, thanks mainly to careful restoration-reconstruction.

The origin is very remote, as witnessed by various archaeological finds on site, but surprising thing is how very nature has allowed to take care this subject of memory. It is built on tufaceous plateau, in fact, and over the millennia it has been literally barricade by natural walls, dug from the corrosion of water courses. These elements have made it historic bastion, challenge in the time. The area all around, then, is rich in natural, mining and forestry resources, exploited since the time of homo sapiens, it conquest and it surprise even to the present day.