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	The Etruscan Tombs at Tarquinia
		The academic wealth of Tarquinia is in its Etruscan frescoes.
		The Tomb of the Bulls is another famous Etruscan tomb in the Monterozzi necropolis Tarquinia.
		The major clue to this dipiction of non-dominance is that the birds are proportionally larger than the men in the fresco, and that they, rather than the men, are the featured element.
	oncampus.richmond.edu /academics/classics/students/belanger/tarquinia.html (1146 words)

	Tarquinia - Wikipedia
		Tarquinia is een stad in de Italiaanse provincie Viterbo met ongeveer 15.000 inwoners.
		Tussen 1872 en 1922 heette Tarquinia 'Corneto Tarquinia'.
		Ten noordoosten van het hedendaagse Tarquinia en het vroegere Corneto ligt de Etruskische stad Tarquinii, die onder de naam Turchuna één van de belangrijkste leden was van het twaalfstedenverbond.
	nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tarquinia (214 words)

	Tarquinia - Viterbo - Tuscia - Italy
		Between present-day Civita and Tarquinia, at a depth of a few metres into the subsoil is a large number of tombs (around six thousand), dug into the limestone ("macco"), about sixty of which contain important wall paintings: some of these have been fitted with lights and steps to allow tourists to make the descent.
		Present-day Tarquinia (known as Corneto until1922), populated after ancient Civita was abandoned, has one of the most important archaeological museums in the region, housed in Palazzo Vitelleschi.
		In medieval Tarquinia, characterised by numerous towers (including the tower of Dante) and by the castle that, according to tradition, gave refuge to Matilda of Canossa, we find the church of Santa Maria in Castello, the oldest one in the town.
	www.latuscia.com /en_comune_tarquinia.php (1813 words)

	Tarquinia - Wikipedia
		Tarquinia (VT) è un comune con poco più di 15.000 abitanti, dista dal Capoluogo circa 45 km.
		Tarquinia, fino al 1872 Cornéto, quindi fino al 1922 Cornéto Tarquinia, si trova a 169 m d'altitudine su un colle dominante da sinistra il basso corso del fiume Marta, presso la Via Aurelia, nella Maremma laziale.
		Di notevole importanza storica e artistica, Tarquinia è centro turistico (oltre che commerciale e agricolo) assai frequentato.
	it.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tarquinia (601 words)

	Tarchna (Roman Tarquinii or modern Tarquinia)
		The emergence of Tarquinia as a trading power as early as the 8th Century BCE was influenced by it s control of mineral resources located in the Tolfa Hills (Monti della Tolfa), which lay to the south of the city, and midway between Tarquinia and the Caeretan port of Pyrgi.
		There is evidence that the old city of Tarquinia may have survived in the form of a small village on the Pian di Civita as late as medieval times, however the modern city of Tarquinia expanded rapidly from the 5th century CE.
		The walls of the tomb-chambers of the late period are painted with underworld demons escorting the dead on their journey to the beyond, scenes in the nether world, processions of magistrates and other symbols of the rank of the eminent members of the families buried there.
	www.mysteriousetruscans.com /tarchna.html (2959 words)

	Tarquinia accommodation, Italy - hotels, apartments, bed and breakfast in Tarquinia
		Tarquinia was founded by the Etrurians and it had been one of the main Etrurian towns because of its strategic geographical position (it was more towards North-East than it is nowadays) that gave it the opportunity to dominate the surrounding plain from an high ridge.
		Nowadays Tarquinia still has lots of Etrurian evidences kept in the Archeological Museum, where you can find one of the best collection of etrurian founds in Italy (such as some statues, vases, sarcophagi).
		Overlooking the sea and framed by the splendid Etruscan hills of Tarquinia with their wealth of culture and history, the Podere Giulio farm is located in countryside of almost unspoilt natural beauty.
	www.italialodging.com /selected_accommodation_in_tarquinia.htm (262 words)

	The Etruscans - Tarquinia
		Very little remains of the urban fabric of the city: the remains of the solid walls of the 4th century BC, made of square blocks of limestone and about five miles long, and the remains of a temple of the first half of the 4th century BC known as Ara Reginae.
		The importance of Tarquinia is shown by the legend according to which the city was founded by Tarchon, the companion of the mythical hero Tyrrhenus, the ancestor of the Etruscans.
		In the first phase of the history of Tarquinia, the tombs are mainly of the tumulus or sarcophagus type, that is, covered with slabs of limestone.
	www.larth.it /pages_eng/tarquin.htm (615 words)

	Etruscan Tarquinia - Comune di Tarquinia
		In time, Tarquinia increased so much in size and population that only Athens, after its victory over the Persians, could equal it.
		It was beautiful, lively, colourful and pervaded with riches, the breath of civilisation and culture, and the use of every possible refinement.
		However, Rome soon became a great engine of war and the first to be crushed were the Etruscans themselves, including Tarquinia, mother of both the conquered and the conquerors.
	www.tarquinia.net /citta/tarquinia_degli_etruschi_e.asp (520 words)

	Tarquinia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tarquinia, formerly Corneto and in Antiquity Tarquinii, is an ancient city in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.
		Tarquinii is said to have been already a flourishing city when Demaratus of Corinth brought in Greek workmen.
		The flax and forests of its extensive territory are mentioned by classical authors, and we find Tarquinii offering to furnish Scipio with sailcloth in 195 B.C. A bishop of Tarquinii is mentioned in 456.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tarquinia (336 words)

	Tarquinia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		After the son of the last Tarquin king raped the Roman matron Lucrezia, who then committed suicide, a popular uprising led to the creation of the Roman Republic in 509 BC.
		Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Tarquinia) 9-2 PM (closed Mondays).
		Necropolis - the painted tombs of Tarquinia are in a vast and eerie landscape, the site of the original ancient city.
	www.giotto.org /tarquinia.html (268 words)

	Etruscan itinerary: Tarquinia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tarquinia is located near the Marta river and in the IV cent.
		But in the 1362 Tarquinia was occupied by Albornoz who brought it again under the authority of the Church’s state.
		Today Tarquinia has about fourteen thousand inhabitants and it is a nice village in medieval style.
	www.infoitaly.net /ENG/etr_tar.htm (215 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.30
		Tarquinia is one of the fifteen urbanised centres in the South Etruscan volcanic landscape which developed more rapidly than the rest of Central Italy.
		The origin of Tarquinia lies in a cluster of proto-Etruscan settlements dating from the 9th century that must have grown organically into the archaic settlement.
		Tarquinia was last the subject of such a study, by no less a person than Massimo Pallottino, in 1937.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2005/2005-07-30.html (1501 words)

	The Etruscan Necropolis of Tarquinia - Primitaly
		Regarding the others important necropoli of the Etruscan area, like Vejo and Vulci, the orientalizzante period of Tarquinia introduces the less sfarzosa way, less rich the equipments, had to the predominant figure of Caere that was prevailed on all the territory, embezzling traffics trades them to the area.
		a.C. famous one strongly resumption economic and Tarquinia a remarkable superiority regarding the other cities is caught up succeeding to support the sucessive and numerous battles against Rome that will last to along.
		In the 281 a.C. Tarquinia comes definitively submitted from Rome and succesivamente it begins the true decline.
	www.primitaly.it /lazio/viterbo/tarquinia/tar_envir.htm (663 words)

	Etruscan Tombs
		Gradually inhumation burials began to appear, the first being in Tarquinia and Caere, and during the Orientalizing period eventually became the prevailing rite, except in northern Etruria, where cremation persisted right up to the 1st century BC, epitomised by the elaborately carved alabaster urns of Volterra.
		The Tarquinia tomb frescos are well preserved in many cases, and we owe much of our insight into Etruscan lifestyle to the Tarquinia frescos.
		The Tarquinia frescos represent approximately 90% of all Etruscan necropolis frescos.
	www.mysteriousetruscans.com /tombs.html#Tarquinia (1216 words)

	Corneto Tarquinia - LoveToKnow 1911
		Four miles to the S.W. is the Porto Clementino (perhaps the ancient Graviscae, the port of Tarquinii), with government saltworks, in which convicts are employed.
		See L. Dasti, Notizie storiche archeologiche di Tarquinia e Corneto (Rome, 1878); for the cemeteries, Notizie degli Scavi, 1906, 1907.
		This page was last modified 12:11, 6 Oct 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Corneto_Tarquinia (248 words)

	Gli Etruschi nella Tuscia: Tarquinia
		E Tarquinia nel contesto delle dodici città etrusche sempre ha goduto di un primato e di un prestigio che altre non avevano.
		Nel 281 a.C. Tarquinia deve sottomettersi a Roma ed inizia il suo lento declino tanto che nel 205 quando Scipione chiede contributi alle città etrusche per la sua impresa in Africa contro Annibale, la potente e ricca città d’un tempo non offre che tela per le vele.
		I mille anni di Tarquinia etrusca sono bene illustrati nelle sale del rinascimentale palazzo Vitelleschi in un museo nazionale che raccoglie migliaia di reperti, vasi e oggetti villanoviani, ceramica etrusca e greca con capolavori unici, sarcofagi e bronzi, gioielli e sculture, ex voto e monete.
	www.provincia.vt.it /cultura/etruschi/tarquinia.htm (716 words)

	TARQUINIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tarquinia, a charming town near the Tyrrhenian Sea, pleasantly combines the medieval look to its ancient etruscan origin.
		In the 7th century the settlement was moved to the hill of "The Castello" because it was easier to difend from the outside attacks.
		In this period Tarquinia took the name CORGNITUM (Corneto).
	www.inroma.it /tarquinia/indexe_h.htm (134 words)

	Tarchna (Roman Tarquinii or modern Tarquinia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The modern city of Tarquinia expanded rapidly from the 5th century A.D.and is located 3 km from the ancient Etruscan city on another hill.
		The importance of Tarquinia is shown by the legend according to which the city was founded by Tarchon,the companion of the mythical hero Tyrrhenus the ancestor of the Etruscans.
		During the 8th century BCE the social fabric of Tarquinia was influenced by frequent contact with the Greek World.
	www.users.bigpond.com /ppenny/pictures/tarchna.html (1477 words)

	Tarquinia & Cerveteri
		Estate located in Tarquinia, producing IGT Lazio wines from montepulciano, sangiovese, merlot, trebbiano and chardonnay.
		Estate located in Torrimpietra, in the township of Fiumicino, producing Tarquinia DOC and IGT Lazio wines, as well as grappa.
		Cooperative established in 1960 in Cerveteri, producing Cerveteri and Tarquinia DOC wines, Lazio IGT wines, and grappa.
	www.bluewine.com /search/en/index.asp?no_categorie=213904&nom_cat=TarquiniaCerveteri (148 words)

	ASD TARQUINIA Calcio-Sito Ufficiale - Official Websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Si partecipava all'epoca, ai tornei calcistici, di livello regionale, dove le neonate casacche amaranto-blu, iniziavano a portare alto su tutti i campi del Lazio il nome della città.
		Nel 1967, il Tarquinia calcio subisce una retrocessione dalla 2A CATEGORIA nell'infernale 3A CATEGORIA.
		Il TARQUINIA A.L. retrocede in Promozione stabilendo il record negativo nella regione: 10 punti ed ultimo posto in classifica...senza aver vinto una gara su 34 disputate;l'anticamera del COLLASSO SOCIETARIO, calpestati oltre 70 anni di storia in un solo anno.
	www.bravosito.com /websites/Tarquinia/index.htm (527 words)

	Rome : Side Trips : Cerveteri & Tarquinia \| Frommers.com
		It would seem unusual for a medieval town to have an Etruscan name, but actually, Tarquinia is the adopted name of the old medieval community of Corneto, in honor of the major Etruscan city that once stood nearby.
		The main attraction in the town is the Tarquinia National Museum, Piazza Cavour (tel.
		To reach Tarquinia by car, take Via Aurelia outside Rome and continue on the autostrada toward Civitavecchia.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/rome/0064020291.html (963 words)

	Notebook
		Shortly after the middle of the sixth century there appears in the Etruscan tombs, notably of Tarquinia, a new system of painted decoration arranged in superimposed zones round the walls.
		Even beyond Tarquinia, this work, which represents the story of Troilus, has remained a unique example of Archaic mythological painting on a large scale preserved anywhere [109].
		Its date cannot be far removed from the Pontic amphora with the Judgement or Paris in Munich [100, 101], though its style differs, and it may be somewhat later.
	www.noteaccess.com /Texts/Etruscan/14TarquiniaCaere.htm (3134 words)

	Tarquinia
		Tarquinia (300s and 400s BC) is a bit younger than Cerveteri.
		It is also a better known necropolis because of the painted burial chambers.
		Terracotta winged horses from one of the Tarquinia tombs
	www.paradoxplace.com /Perspectives/Rome%20&%20Central%20Italy/Tarquinia/Tarquinia.htm (64 words)

	Photos album of Bagnaia and Tarquinia,in Latium region,Italy.100+ photos of nice,small cities,countrysides and tourist ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tarquinia is a beautiful, very fascinating medieval small city rising on a slight slope of the Tuscia in the north-west of Latium region, not far from the Tyrrhenian Sea.
		From the 6th century B.C., the city was dominated by the Etrurian Tarquins kings of Rome, till the year 509 B.C., with the expulsion from Rome of the king Tarquin the Superb.
		During the 16th century, Tarquinia was exclusively governed by the Roman Church, till the 19th century, when was governed by the Kingdom of Italy.
	www.seekitaly.com /tourism_italy/lazio/bagnaia_tarquinia.html (772 words)

	Tarquinia: An Etruscan City (Duckworth Archaeological Histories)
		Tarquinia was one of the great cities of ancient Etruria, where the most powerful, creative and, sometimes, elusive civilisation of pre-Roman Italy emerged.
		The archaeology of Tarquinia has been at the forefront of Etruscan studies since the early days of antiquarian scholarship and is renowned for its unique painted tombs and vast cemeteries.
		Charting Tarquinia's growth from prehistory to late antiquity, Tarquinia: An Etruscan City covers everything from what modern archaeology can tell us about the society to literary impressions of Tarquinia by great writers and poets such as Stendhal and D.H. Lawrence.
	www.literacyconnections.com /0_0715631624.html (316 words)

	tarquinia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Inoltre, riprendendo nei loro affreschi aspetti della vita quotidiana dell'epoca, gli Etruschi ci hanno lasciato, grazie a Cerveteri e Tarquinia, una testimonianza unica della loro civiltà”.
		E allora andiamo a visitare Tarquinia di oggi.
		Tarquinia è al centro dell’Etruria Meridionale, capitale etrusca, cittadina medioevale, luogo archeologico di fama internazionale e di intensa vita culturale.
	www.heos.it /Viaggi04/viagg_41.htm (135 words)

	Tarquinia
		Tarquinia, formerly Corneto and originally Tarquinii, is an ancient city in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.
		Presentazione della struttura e informazioni sulla città di Tarquinia e del territorio circostante.
		Associazione nautica che propone scuola di navigazione a vela per adulti e ragazzi a partire dai 10 anni: corsi, base operativa a Tarquinia ed estremi per contatti.
	www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Tarquinia (739 words)

	TARQUINIA MOLZA PORRINA
		Poet, composer, singer, musician, Tarquinia Molza was one of the leading figures of northern Italian musical culture during the second half of the sixteenth century, She was the oldest and most experienced of the female musicians at the court of Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara.
		Her performance style was seminal to the creation of the concerto delle donne, and she is said to have acted as instructor and conductor to her fellow musicians.
		The views expressed in this document are those of the author and not those of the University of Southampton.
	www.soton.ac.uk /~lastras/secreta/biogs/singers/tmbiog.htm (112 words)

	Tarquinia beach holiday apartment rental - Argentario sea holiday apartment with golf, walking, private tennis court, ...
		It is located in Marina Velca Beach close to Tarquinia, near Viterbo.
		It is a very beautiful area, reach in History, because it is tha cradle of Etruscan Civilization, with the most important Etruscan Museum in Tarquinia.
		This land is considered the cradle of Etruscan civilization and it is reach in History.
	www.holidaylettings.co.uk /homedisplay.asp?home_id=4095 (1084 words)

	Etruscan Itineraries - Tarquinia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Visit the National Museum of Tarquinia (Museo Nazionale Tarquinense - Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Tarquinia), housed in a 15C palace with an incredible collection of Etruscan art featuring material dating mostly from the 6th to 3rd century BC, including a few pieces from Greece and Egypt.
		Near Tarquinia are the Necropolis in a vast and eerie landscape, the site of the original ancient city.
		Only a few of the painted tombs of Tarquinia are open to view at one time and will give us not just a look at the Etruscan aesthetic and way of life, but also a glimpse of the tradition of Greek painting.
	www.travelvantage.com /it_etr_it_tarquinia.html (391 words)

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