Acquarossa or Fosso Acqua Rossa is the modern name of the location of an ancient
Etruscan settlement abandoned or destroyed in the second half of the sixth century BC. Located near
Viterbo
Viterbo (; Viterbese: ; lat-med, Viterbium) is a city and ''comune'' in the Lazio region of central Italy, the capital of the province of Viterbo.
It conquered and absorbed the neighboring town of Ferento (see Ferentium) in its early history ...
, in
Etruria
Etruria () was a region of Central Italy, located in an area that covered part of what are now most of Tuscany, northern Lazio, and northern and western Umbria.
Etruscan Etruria
The ancient people of Etruria
are identified as Etruscans. Thei ...
, was excavated by the
Swedish Institute at Rome in the 1960s and 1970s. An elite complex similar to the Regia in Rome was excavated at the site.
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Information about the excavations
Etruscan sites
Former populated places in Italy
Etruscan architecture
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