Etruscan highlights full day from Rome

6 hours Free cancellation Private tour

NECROPOLIS OF BANDITACCIA — Photos: the activity supplier, via Viator

About this activity

CERVETERI AND CERI

Proceeding with the project started with the Archeological Museum of Cerveteri, also the necropolis was provided with innovative multimedia itinerary. Inside the eight graves, multimedia setup has been installed. Thanks to audiovisual animations, they reproduce how the environment must have been in the past. The Necropoli counts in addition with a Bookshop, toilet and refreshment areas, with indoors and outdoors tables, where you can stop by for break during your visit.

Visiting the interior of the illuminated tombs is a suggestive experience, thanks to which you will get in contact with ancient Etruscans and the mysterious cult of dead.

The Necropolis of Banditaccia is absolutely the most extended ancient necropolis of the whole Mediterranean area.

A curiosity: it took its name in late nineteenth century, when the fields of the area were announced by public notice to be let by Cerveteri landlords to locals (in Italian, "bandire", thus "Banditaccia.

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At a glance

Duration: 6 hours
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–7
Guide: Portuguese, English, Italian, Spanish
Operated by: Carratonitours

Ages: Adults (0–99 years)

What is included

Included

Included: Private tour
Included: Hotel/port drop-off
Included: Driver/guide
Included: Hotel pickup
Included: Local taxes
Included: Transport by air-conditioned minivan

Not included

Not included: Gratuities

Itinerary

Cerveteri

2 hours

Cerveteri is a town and comune of northern Lazio in the region of the Metropolitan City of Rome. Known by the ancient Romans as Caere, and previously by the Etruscans as Caisra or Cisra, and as Agylla (or Άγυλλα) by the Greeks, its modern name derives from Caere Vetus used in the 13th century to distinguish it from Caere Novum (the current town).

It is the site of the ancient Etruscan city[3]which was one of the most important Etruscan cities with an area more than 15 times larger than today's town.

Caere was one of the city-states of the Etruscan League and at its height, around 600 BC, its population was perhaps around 25,000 – 40,000 people.
Necropoli della Banditaccia

one hour Admission not included

The Etruscan Necropolis of Banditaccia is located in top of a hill north to Cerveteri and it is beyond doubt one of the most interesting archeological sites to visit so much as to be declared, together with the Etruscan Necropolis of Tarquiniain 2004 UNESCO World Heritage

The Necropolis expands for about 10 hectares and is formed by almost 400 tombs, the oldest dating back to the Villanovan culture (ninth century BC) and the most recent to the Etruscan period (third century BC.

The feeling in the air walking within the Necropolis of Banditaccia is simply unique! It is a great and well preserved site, inside which you will really feel like you can go back in time and live again the life of this misterious as well as fascinating civilisation.
Borgo Medioevale di Ceri

2 hours

Inhabited before the 7th century BC, the town's native population changed several times, from Etruscans to Romans. Numerous tombs from the Etruscan and Roman periods can be found in the area.

The town as it looks today was founded in 1236 when the inhabitants of its Caere neighbour abandoned the former to be better protected by rock formations. To this, they gave the name of Caere Novum (simply Ceri, not to be confused with another neighbour, Cerenova), in order to distinguish it from the ancient city, Caere Vetus (today Cerveteri). In the same period, the castle was constructed for the defence of the town.