History
Ancient sites and the stories behind them, from Etruscan tombs to Roman forums.
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Appian Way
Rome's ancient Regina Viarum, a 312 BCE road of original basalt paving, catacombs and umbrella pines outside the city.
Temples of Paestum
Three Doric temples of the 6th and 5th centuries BC, among the best preserved outside Greece.
Hadrian's Villa
Emperor Hadrian's sprawling villa at Tivoli, a memory of his travels in marble and brick, with the Canopus and Maritime Theatre.
Places to see
Villa Romana del Casale
A Roman hunting villa whose mudslide-sealed floors preserve the richest Roman mosaics in existence.
Su Nuraxi di Barumini
Sardinia's grandest Bronze Age nuraghe complex, excavated from beneath a hill in the 1950s.
Necropolis of Monterozzi
Tarquinia's painted Etruscan tombs, antiquity's most vivid gallery of daily life.
Necropolis of the Banditaccia
The Etruscan city of the dead outside Cerveteri, its tombs cut street by street into the tufa and furnished like real houses.
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