Insediamento rupestre di Vitozza

Another Etruscan city with tons of dug-out chambers/tombs

Since the town and its supposedly Necropolis are located on the same hill, I surmise that they are not only tombs all these grottoes... The depth of these big grottoes are amazing! You can tell that l...

A Long, Long Walk With Not Much To See

The site is a 1.5 km walk through the woods. It's a nice walk with some caves on the right side but way too long. The site itself is completely spread out in the woods so there is a lot more walking...

NIce walk through history and nature

nice place to spend a couple of hours lost in nature and history in the lost city. WE had a lovely refreshing walk through the woods on the path passed the ancient caves surrounded by the miriads of s...

The "ghost town" of Vitozza: a specificity in this tuff region

Of all the sights that this region of volcanic tuff features, Vitozza isn't the most attractive as for the landscape: the deep Etruscan so-called "vie cave" (carved roads) around Pitigliano and Sovana...

Culture Treasury

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For a trip we visited the dead city of Vitozza and found it very exciting and extraordinarily worth seeing. A great cultural and natural treasure.