If you are arriving into the Civitavecchia dock, there is a highly recommended shore excursion which will allow you to see the greatest Etruscan museum in the world, with well-preserved sarcophagi, paintings, tombs, frescoes from the 6th to 1st centuries B.C. and the largest Etruscan necropolis.

Tarquinia was the most important of the etruscan cities in Italy, and appears in the earliest history of Rome as the home of two of its kings, Tarquinius Priscus and Tarquinius Superbus.

The Etruscan tombs are on a hilltop just outside the main town. About 6000 tombs were dug into the soft volcanic tufa and some were painted inside with colorful frescoes.

The majority of this tour goes in this sequence:

Castle in Tarquinia

A Tarquinia Street

Just outside Tarquinia, near to the tombs

Paintings inside the tombs