Vulci
Vulci is a former Etruscan city in northern Lazio in Italy. It is now deserted but many of the Etruscan ruins found in excavations from 1828 onwards of an extensive Necropolis are housed in a former castle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ronnlund, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: Etruscan city
- Also known as: “Parco Naturalistico Archeologico Vulci”, “Velch”, “Velcha”, and “Velx”
Places of Interest
Highlights include François Tomb and Tomb of Cuccumella.
François Tomb
Archaeological site
Photo: Battlelight, Public domain.
The François Tomb is an important painted Etruscan tomb from the Ponte Rotto Necropolis in the Etruscan city of Vulci, Lazio, in central Italy. It was discovered in 1857 by Alessandro François and Adolphe Noël des Vergers.
Vulci
- Categories: city-state, archaeological site, tourist attraction, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Viterbo, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.4106° or 42° 24′ 38″ northLongitude
11.6483° or 11° 38′ 54″ eastOperator
Soprintendenza dei Beni archeologici dell’Etruria MeridionaleOpen location code
8FJHCJ6X+68OpenStreetMap ID
way 481992990OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
place=localityOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionWikidata ID
Q931172
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Vulci” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Вульчы”
- Bulgarian: “Вулци”
- Catalan: “Volcentes”
- Catalan: “Volci”
- Catalan: “Volcientes”
- Catalan: “Vulci”
- Chinese: “武爾奇”
- Czech: “Velch”
- Czech: “Velx”
- Czech: “Volci”
- Czech: “Vulci”
- Dutch: “Volci”
- Dutch: “Vulci”
- Finnish: “Vulci”
- French: “Ponte della Badia”
- French: “Vulci”
- German: “Vulci”
- Hungarian: “Velch”
- Italian: “Parco Archeologico e Naturalistico di Vulci”
- Italian: “Vulci”
- Japanese: “ウルキ”
- Japanese: “ヴルチ”
- Latin: “Vulci”
- Malay: “Vulci”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vulci”
- Polish: “Vulci”
- Polish: “Wulczi”
- Portuguese: “Volci”
- Portuguese: “Vulci”
- Portuguese: “Vulcos”
- Russian: “Вульчи”
- Slovenian: “Vulci”
- Spanish: “Velch”
- Spanish: “Velx”
- Spanish: “Vulci”
- Swedish: “Volci”
- Swedish: “Vulci”
- Swiss German: “Volci”
- Swiss German: “Vulci”
- Tosk Albanian: “Volci”
- Ukrainian: “Вульчі”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Vulci”. Photo: Ronnlund, CC BY-SA 3.0.