Tuscania attractions

Tuscania's attractions are tufa, tombs and the shape of the land.

The hill of San Pietro carried the acropolis, urbanised from the eighth century BC and now standing outside the city's walls — which is the first thing to understand about the site's layout.

The necropoleis are the archaeological substance. Twelve distinct rock-cut necropoleis have been found across the territory, including those of the Scalette and the Pantacciano, whose finds date the first important settlements here to between the Copper Age and the early Bronze Age.

The medieval walls are Hohenstaufen: Frederick II captured the city on 2 March 1240 and provided it with a line of walls.

And the setting itself — seven tufa promontories between two watercourses, commanding a prehistoric transhumance route — is what the whole town is built to exploit.