{"id":1529,"date":"2018-08-08T01:02:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T01:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitigliano.org\/?page_id=1529"},"modified":"2022-05-24T14:02:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T14:02:17","slug":"etruscan-period","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pitigliano.org\/en\/storia\/etruscan-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Etruscan Period"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Etruscan Period in Pitigliano<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The origins of Pitigliano are very ancient, as evidenced by the archaeological findings in the oldest part of the Tuscan village. Pitigliano, like most of the territory of the Fiora River valley, had prehistoric and protohistoric settlements mainly linked to the extraction and processing of metals and to the defensive security guaranteed by the tufa cliffs.<\/p>\n

Particularly interesting is the discovery, in the 1980s, of a necropolis dating back to the Civit\u00e0 di Rinaldone \u2013 a funerary cultural phenomenon widespread in Tuscany, in central-northern Lazio and in the Marche region. Dating back to the Eneolithic period, between the middle of the fourth millennium and the first part of the third millennium BC, it is identified by its oven or cave tombs found in the archaeological site of Poggialti-Vallelunga.<\/p>\n

Another archaeological area, north of Pitigliano, houses the remains of an ancient village that embraces a temporal arch that goes from the Middle Bronze Age \u2013 17th century BC \u2013 to the Final Bronze \u2013 10th century BC.<\/p>\n

The wealth of ancient settlements and necropolis indicate Pitigliano was, in effect, one of the main centres during the Villanovan period in the Valle del Fiora, between the 12th and 10th centuries BC. The area of \u200b\u200bPitigliano was slowly abandoned in favour of the coastal town of Vulci in later centuries.<\/p>\n

From the 8th century BC however, the Valle del Fiora had a strong rebirth, it is in this period in fact that some of the most important Etruscan centres were born, in particular those of Pitigliano, Sovana, Poggio Buco and Castro, thanks in particular to populations coming from the same Vulci and nearby Tiberina area.<\/p>\n

After Poggio Buco was abandoned, Pitigliano became the main Etruscan city of the Valle del Fiora, thanks in particular to its strategic position \u2013 it was born on an impressive tufaceous rock \u2013 and to the construction, in the 6th century BC of its walls, which surrounded the built-up area between the Porta di Sovana \u2013 also known as Porta di Sotto \u2013 and one of the oldest neighbourhoods of Pitigliano, that of Fratta.<\/p>\n