Cerveteri
A city of Etruscan tombs laid out in streets, half an hour from the sea.
11 days outthe nearest is a 51 min drive from Rome
The Banditaccia necropolis is not a field of mounds: it is a town plan, with roads, junctions and house-shaped tombs cut into the tufa along them, and you walk through it the way you would walk through a village.
The country around it is open and unfenced, which is why so much of what you can book here happens on a horse or on wheels — the tracks run from the tombs down towards the coast.
Best fit for this section first, then whatever you can book today. Closest to Rome breaks a tie. Never by who pays us.
On horsebackRide out into the Tolfa hills for three hours. They also go out at sunset.
See the dayBest fit for this section first, then whatever you can book today. Closest to Rome breaks a tie. Never by who pays us.
On the trailGuided walk through the tumulus tombs of the Banditaccia, carved to reproduce the inside of Etruscan houses, and along the Via degli Inferi, the sunken road that led to the buri…
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On the trailGuided visit to the tumulus tombs of the Banditaccia and to the Tomb of the Reliefs, carved in the fourth century BC with stucco copies of household objects, plus the museum hol…
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On the trailA natural monument at Cerveteri, from the twentieth century.
Free — nothing to pay
Just turn up — open air, any hour
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Off roadA four-hour guided off-road ride across farmland and Mediterranean scrub to the Cerveteri waterfalls, where the operator says there is a swim stop.
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Off roadA three-hour guided ride on dirt tracks between olive groves and vineyards through the Etruscan territory of Cerveteri, with a stop at the Cascatella di Sant'Antonio where the o…
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Off roadFive hours in total: three on a quad or dune buggy across the Cerveteri countryside to the Banditaccia Etruscan necropolis, then two hours visiting the tombs of the UNESCO site.
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Off roadThe operator's longest and roughest guided ride: five hours, eighty per cent on unsurfaced tracks, with the Cerveteri waterfalls as the turning point.
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Off roadA two-hour guided ride on a quad or dune buggy through the Etruscan countryside around Cerveteri, half of it on unsurfaced tracks.
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Off roadA guided hour on a quad or a dune buggy through the countryside of Cerveteri, along farm roads between olive groves and vineyards as far as the hilltop hamlet of Ceri, then back…
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In the old stonesA sanctuary at Cerveteri.
Free — nothing to pay
Just turn up
See the dayGetting there
The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.
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See prices on LocalrentNo parking to find, no wrong turns, and you leave when the day is done.
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