Farmhouse Strada Provinciale Tarquiniense, Tuscania

REF. TU Tu870087
Tuscania, 12 km from the sea, dominant position, farmhouse of 200 square meters. Currently developed on two levels with a courtyard of 5000 square meters. Medieval Towers of the City of Tarquinia and the Hills of the Etruscan Maremma. On the first floor a large LIVING ROOM with kitchenette, fireplace, two double bedrooms and bathroom has been created. the division into three very large rooms was left, the old stable with a rectangular plan and two warehouses with a square plan.
Convenient access from an asphalted road. In the courtyard there is an old stone drinking trough. The city is well kept and welcoming with a beautiful historic center and a modern part that has undergone constant development in recent years. The ancient city of Tuscania was already inhabited by the Etruscans, rich and important, it took advantage of the maritime trade through the port of Montalto di Castro. The Romans conquered it in the third century. BC and marked a road that took the name of Clodia. Over time the city resumed life 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. in 774 and donated it to the Church which took control of it. Nevertheless, Tuscania was repeatedly threatened by the families of tyrants who fought over the various fiefdoms and it was for this reason that it was elected a free municipality. During the fifteenth century. card. Giovanni Vitelleschi, hired by the Holy See to restore order and possession of his own territories, stormed the great walls and definitively expelled the tyrants. During successive 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.All has been rebuilt with great care, but inevitably the face of the city has underwent profound changes. However, countless testimonies remain, the Etruscan necropolis, the medieval center and the great perimeter walls still miraculously erected. At the height of Etruscan power, the city, together with the nearby Tarquinia, was a strategic point along the trade routes of southern Etruria and extended up to the hill where the basilica of St. Peter stands today. Here it is thought that 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 gradually assumes a hegemonic role over the entire surrounding area, extending its influence up to Viterbo, which was subdued as a castle of the city in 1207 and was pervaded by a great artistic and architectural fervor, favored by 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 with the final phase of the Bronze Age. The course of the river Marta and its tributaries are the pole of attraction of the first archaic settlements in the area, which settle on the natural reliefs formed by the erosion of the waters. BC, well identified by the respective necropolis, seven settlements are defined, located on the heights that wind south and north of the current hill of S. Pietro--4a9b69647e71c2ba45d8a998031d2432!