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 (; Central Italian, Viterbese: ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in the Lazio region of Italy, the Capital city, capital of the province of Viterbo.
It conquered and absorbed the neighboring town of Ferento (see Ferentium) in ...
, in
Etruria
Etruria ( ) was a region of Central Italy delimited by the rivers Arno and Tiber, an area that covered what is now most of Tuscany, northern Lazio, and north-western Umbria. It was inhabited by the Etruscans, an ancient civilization that f ...
, 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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Etruscan sites
Former populated places in Italy
Etruscan architecture
Viterbo
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