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REF .: TU8376 Tuscany, close to the castle walls, agricultural land used as a garden of 2560 square meters. The irrigated land has a spontaneous source of spring water, and is cultivated with ornamental plants, fruit and spices. near the inhabited center it can be reached on foot. Very panoramic.The city is well-kept and welcoming with a beautiful historic center and a modern part which in recent years has had a constant development. The ancient city of Tuscania was already inhabited by the Etruscans, rich and important, it made use of maritime trade through the port of Montalto di Castro. The Romans conquered it in the III century. BC and they marked a road that took the name of Clodia. Over time the city started to live again and the inhabited center began to expand on the current plateau, but already in 574 it was conquered by the Lombards during the descent towards Rome. Carlo Magno conquered it in 774 and donated it to the Church which took control of it. Nonetheless, Tuscania was repeatedly threatened by the families of tyrants who fought over the various fiefdoms and it was for this reason that a free municipality was elected. During the fifteenth century. the card. Giovanni Vitelleschi, hired by the Holy See to restore order and possession on its territories, conquered the great walls and definitively drove out the tyrants. During subsequent invasions and consequent destruction, the city lost many beauties, but the coup de grace came in 1971, when a violent earthquake destroyed many houses, churches and important buildings. Everything was rebuilt with great care, but inevitably the face of the city has profound changes. However, countless testimonies remain, the Etruscan necropolises, the medieval center and the large perimeter walls miraculously still erected. At the height of Etruscan power, the city, together with Tarquinia, not far away, was a strategic point along the trade routes of southern Etruria and extended to the hill where the basilica of St. Peter stands today. Here it is thought there was the acropolis of the Etruscan city. Even in Roman times it maintained the characteristic of extending over seven hills, just like Rome. Tuscania progressively assumes a hegemonic role over the whole surrounding area, reaching to extend its influence up to Viterbo, which was subdued as the city castle in 1207 and was pervaded by a great artistic and architectural fervor, favored by the repopulation and by the presence of inside the walls of many religious orders, including the mendicant orders of the Franciscans and Augustinians. The history of Tuscania begins from the final phase of the Bronze Age. The course of the Marta river and its tributaries are the center of attraction for the first archaic allocations in the area, which settle on the natural reliefs formed by the erosion of the waters. BC, well identified by their respective necropolises, seven settlements are defined, located on the heights that wind south and north of the current hill of S. Pietro--9c21c8c721f0e5e01be20f7c89c74d4f!