Necropolis of Crocifisso del Tufo – Orvieto
At the foot of the majestic tuff cliff crowned by Orvieto—once the ancient Etruscan Velzna—lies one of the most fascinating necropolises in Italy. Here, between the 6th and 3rd centuries BCE, a cosmopolitan community buried their dead in a true “city of the dead,” organized with orthogonal streets and cube-shaped tombs aligned with an almost urbanistic rigor. The result is an eternal neighbourhood, where each family had its own otherworldly home, topped by an inscription that still whispers the name of its owner.