Cerveteri On the trail

Cerveteri Etruscan necropolis and the Via degli Inferi with a guide

Cerveteri

The Etruscans built their dead a suburb. Round tumuli with doorways, corridors and rooms cut to reproduce the houses they had just left, down to the beds and the roof beams, carved in tufa.

How the day goes

  1. Walk the streets of the necropolis, going in and out of the tombs.
  2. Down the Via degli Inferi, a road sunk between walls of cut rock.
  3. Finish in the museum inside the medieval castle in town.

The ground is uneven and the tomb stairs are steep, so wear shoes you can go down steps in.

Where it is

Cerveteri at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.

Cerveteri, and where it is from Rome Cerveteri drawn at its real position relative to Rome, about 51 minutes by car. The faint dots are the other places we list, so you can see how far out this one is. 51 min Rome Cerveteri

Open it where the roads are

Takes you to Via Monterone 9, 01010 Blera (VT), the address the operator publishes.

Getting there

Getting there, the comfortable way

  • 51 mindrive from the middle of Rome
  • 45 kmeach way
  • 2 h 30once you are there
  • Rent a car for the day

    The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.

    • You pick it up in Rome and drop it back in Rome
    • No timetable to build the day around
    • The stops on the way are the good part, and they need a car

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  • Have a driver take you, door to door

    No parking to find, no wrong turns, and you leave when the day is done.

    • Picked up where you are staying, dropped back there
    • No parking to find and no ZTL to worry about
    • Nobody spends the day driving

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