Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Eating
TRATTORIA
€
La Tavernetta
(Via del Pretorio 3; meals €20, pizzas €4-7; daily summer, Wed-Mon winter)
Serving traditional
Maremmese dishes all day and pizzas from its wood-fired oven at night, this casual eatery
near the tourist office is a safe choice for a simple meal.
Information
The extremely helpful
tourist office
(
05 6461 4074;
10am-1pm & 3-7pm Fri-Wed summer
only)
is in the Palazzo Pretorio on the main piazza.
Getting There & Away
Rama Mobilità
(
Click here
) buses travel to/from Pitigliano (€1.35, 10-20 minutes, once
daily) and Sorano (€1.35, 15 minutes, once or twice daily).
The car park at the entrance to town charges €0.50 per hour.
TOP OF CHAPTER
Around Sovana
Tuscany's most significant Etruscan tombs are found within the
Parco Archeologico 'Città del
Tufa'
(Necropoli di Sovana;
www.leviecave.it
; €5; 10am-7pm summer, 10am-5pm Sat & Sun Nov &
Mar)
, 1.5km east of town. Interpretative panels in Italian and English impart interesting in-
formation about the site.
There are four tombs in total. The
Tomba dei Demoni Alati
(Tomb of the Winged Demons)
was discovered in 2004 and features a headless recumbent figure in terracotta. The
carving of a sea demon with huge wings that was the original centrepiece of the tomb is
now protected in a roofed enclosure nearby. The
Tomba Ildebranda
, named after Gregory
VII, still bears traces of its carved columns and stairs and is the park's headline exhibit.
The
Tomba del Tifone
(Tomb of the Typhoon) is about 300m down a trail running alongside
a rank of tomb facades cut from the rock face. Two arresting lengths of
via cave
(one
known as 'Cavone' and the other 'Poggio Prisca') are nearby.
On the opposite side of the site is the
Tomba della Sirena
and another
via cava
('San Se-
bastiano'), which was closed due to safety concerns at the time of research.
