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(Piazza Santa Maria; adult/reduced €6/3, incl necropolis €8/4; 8.30am-5.30pm Tue-Sun)
In Cerve-
teri's medieval town centre, this splendid museum houses Etruscan treasures unearthed at
the necropolis.
Eating
Antica Locanda le Ginestre
( 06 994 33 65;
www.anticalocandaleginestre.com
;
Piazza Santa Maria 5; meals €40; Tue-Sun)
This highly recommended, family-run restaurant dishes up delicious food prepared with
organically grown local produce and served in an elegant dining room or flower-filled
courtyard garden. Book ahead.
RESTAURANT
€€
Getting There & Around
Cerveteri is easily accessible from Rome by regular Cotral bus (€3.90, 55 minutes, half-
hourly) from outside the Cornelia metro stop (line A). Return buses leave from Cerveteri's
main square.
To get to the necropolis from the town centre, bus G runs approximately hourly from
the main square (€0.60, five minutes).
By car, take either Via Aurelia (SS1) or the Civitavecchia autostrada (A12) and exit at
Cerveteri-Ladispoli.
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Tarquinia
POP 16,000 / ELEV 169M
Some 90km northwest of Rome, Tarquinia is the pick of Lazio's Etruscan towns. The
highlight is the magnificent Unesco-listed necropolis and its extraordinary frescoed
tombs, but there's also a fantastic Etruscan museum (the best outside of Rome) and an at-
mospheric medieval centre.
Legend suggests that Tarquinia was founded towards the end of the Bronze Age in the
12th century BC. Later home to the Tarquin kings of Rome before the creation of the Ro-
man Republic, it reached its prime in the 4th century BC, before a century of struggle
ended with surrender to Rome in 204 BC.
