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Tarquinia

Tarquinia is a town in , . At first site it looks like a miniature version of with its medieval towers but the main reason for visiting is that it has fascinating Etruscan tombs with wall paintings, as well as a good museum on the Etruscans.
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  • Type: Town with 16,500 residents
  • Description: Italian comune
  • Also known as: “Corneto”
  • Neighbors: and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Tomb of Orcus and Tarquinia National Museum.

Archaeological site
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The , sometimes called the Tomb of Murina, is a 4th-century BC Etruscan hypogeum in Tarquinia, . Discovered in 1868, it displays Hellenistic influences in its remarkable murals, which include the portrait of Velia Velcha, an Etruscan noblewoman, and the only known pictorial representation of the daemon Tuchulcha.

Museum
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The is an dedicated to the Etruscan civilization in Tarquinia, . Its collection consists primarily of the artifacts which were excavated from the Necropolis of Monterozzi to the east of the city.

Church
Photo: Pazienza Giorgia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Tarquinia, , , dedicated to Saint Margaret and Saint Martin.

Tarquinia

Latitude
42.2532° or 42° 15′ 12″ north
Longitude
11.7592° or 11° 45′ 33″ east
Population
16,500
Elevation
133 metres (436 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IT TRQ
Open location code
8FJH7Q35+7M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 72963903
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3165919
Wiki­data ID
Q179999
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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Yue Chinese—“Tarquinia” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Tarchonion”
  • Arabic: “تاركوينيا”
  • Armenian: “Տարկվինիա”
  • Asturian: “Tarquinia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tarkviniya”
  • Basque: “Tarquinia”
  • Belarusian: “Тарквінія”
  • Belarusian: “Таркуйнія”
  • Breton: “Tarquinia”
  • Bulgarian: “Тарквиния”
  • Catalan: “Tarquínia”
  • Cebuano: “Tarquinia”
  • Central Bikol: “Tarquinia”
  • Chechen: “Таркуйни”
  • Chinese: “Tarquinia”
  • Chinese: “塔尔奎尼亚”
  • Chinese: “塔爾奎尼亞”
  • Chinese: “特基尼亞”
  • Czech: “Tarquinia”
  • Danish: “Tarquinia”
  • Dutch: “Tarquinia”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاركوينيا”
  • Esperanto: “Tarquinia”
  • Etruscan: “Tarchuna”
  • Finnish: “Tarquinia”
  • French: “Tarquinia”
  • Galician: “Tarquinia”
  • Georgian: “ტარკვინია”
  • German: “Tarquinia”
  • Greek: “Ταρκίνια”
  • Greek: “Ταρκουίνια”
  • Greek: “Ταρκυνία”
  • Hebrew: “טרקוויניה”
  • Hindi: “टेरक्विनिआ”
  • Hungarian: “Tarquinia”
  • Indonesian: “Tarquinia”
  • Interlingua: “Tarquinia”
  • Irish: “Tarquinia”
  • Italian: “Corneto” (historical)
  • Italian: “Tarquinia”
  • Japanese: “タルクイーニア”
  • Kazakh: “Таркуйния”
  • Korean: “타르퀴니아”
  • Kurdish: “Tarquinia”
  • Ladin: “Tarquinia”
  • Latin: “Cornetum” (historical)
  • Latin: “Tarquinii”
  • Latvian: “Tarkvīnija”
  • Ligurian: “Tarquinia”
  • Lithuanian: “Tarkvinija”
  • Lombard: “Tarquinia”
  • Malay: “Tarquinia”
  • Malayalam: “ടാർക്വിനി”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tarquinia”
  • Neapolitan: “Tarquinia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarquinia”
  • Norwegian: “Tarquinia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tarquinia”
  • Persian: “تارکوئینیا”
  • Persian: “تارکوینیا”
  • Piemontese: “Tarquinia”
  • Polish: “Tarquinia”
  • Portuguese: “Tarquinia”
  • Romanian: “Tarquinia”
  • Russian: “Тарквинии”
  • Russian: “Тарквиния”
  • Serbian: “Тарквинија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tarquinia, Viterbo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tarquinia”
  • Sicilian: “Tarquinia”
  • Slovak: “Tarquinia”
  • Slovenian: “Tarkvinija”
  • Slovenian: “Tarquinia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تارکوینیا”
  • Spanish: “Corneto”
  • Spanish: “Tarquinia”
  • Swedish: “Tarquinia”
  • Swiss German: “Tarquinii”
  • Tagalog: “Tarquinia”
  • Tatar: “Таркуйния”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tarquinia”
  • Turkish: “Tarquinia”
  • Ukrainian: “Тарквінія”
  • Ukrainian: “Таркуїнія”
  • Uzbek: “Tarquinia”
  • Venetian: “Tarquinia”
  • Vietnamese: “Tarquinia”
  • Volapük: “Tarquinia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tarquinia”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔尔奎尼亚”
  • Yue Chinese: “特基尼亞”
  • “Tarquinia”

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