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THE NECROPOLIS AND ETRUSCAN MUSEUM OF TARQUINIA
The Painted Tombs of Tarquinia

“There are many tombs. When we have seen one, up we go, a little bewildered, into the afternoon sun, across a tract of rough, tormented hill, and down again to the underground, like rabbits in a warren… And gradually the underworld of the Etruscans becomes more real than the above day of the afternoon. One begins to live with the painted dancers and feasters and mourners and to look eagerly for them…..[their dancing] surges from within, like a current in the sea. It is as if the current of some strong different life swept through them, different from our shallow current today. As if they drew their vitality from different depths that we are denied.” ….D.H. Lawrence in “The Painted Tombs of Tarquinia” in Etruscan Places.

Discover the mystery of the Etruscans in Tarquinia at the Necropolis and the National Archaeological Museum of Tarquinia.

Visiting hours: Necropolis 8.30 am till 7.30 pm, summer. The Necropolis closes at 4.30 pm in winter. Museum 8.30 - .7.30 pm. Both the Necropolis and Museum are closed on Mondays.

Websites: http://www.tarquinia.net/citta/turismo/museo_nazionale.asp

http://www.tarquinia.net/citta/turismo/necropoli_etrusca.asp

Linda Lappin's novel The Etruscan is on sale at the Museum Bookshop.

For further information contact “L'Abaco,” Servizi Culturali abacocultural@libero.it

 

ATLANTIS BOOK
Oia Santorini,Greece
www.atlantisbooks.org

Santorini, with its black lava coastline,azure domes, and white cube houses shining against blue sea and sky is a traveler’s dream.Since 2004 is has also been home to a unique literary bookstore, Atlantis Books, run as a cooperative by a group of book-lovers who, exchanging their labor for room and board, have transformed a cave-dwelling on the island into a unique cultural center. Preferring fine literature to potboilers, they have stocked their shelves with literary fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in ten languages, and provide a wide selection of literary magazines and international newspapers. They also organize cultural events throughout the year. It will surely soon become the “Shakespeare & Co” of the Mediterranean.Their website is also well worth a visit.The Etruscan is on sale here.

 

UMBERTO DI GRAZIA
Rome, Italy

Umberto Di Grazia, paranormal researcher who has dedicated four decades to the study of psychic and natural phenomena that challenge our rational and limited picture of the world. Together with a team of physicists, doctors, archaeologists, botanists, medical researchers he has explored beyond the boundaries of what we call reality. Di Grazia was born in Viterbo and the Tuscia and its Etruscan history has a special place in his heart and in his research. www.coscienza.org

 

ANGELA FRUCCI
San Francisco & Rome

Angela Frucci, freelance journalist from California, contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times,  divides her time between San Francisco
and Rome. Her favorite topics are Italian culture, the Vatican, and wine.

 

BERNARD ANSON SILJ

Author and cultural entrepreneur Bernard Anson Silj organizes unique tours of Italy including the Etruscan area, for travelers hoping to penetrate a little deeper into the history, culture, and mysteries of Italian art, architecture, and archaeology.Visit his fascinating website at http://www.belvedere-italia.com/moi.php

 

CHRISTOPHER WINNER
Rome, Italy

Writer, journalist, editor, and publisher well-known on both sides of the Atlantic is now back in Rome, editing and publishing a new magazine addressed to Americans living a broad, The American Magazine, offering lively comment on American politics, culture, lifestyle,  and society. View this monthly magazine at www.theamericanmag.com

 

ROBERTO MASSARI
Bolsena, Italy

Writer and publisher based in Bolsena. Aside fromproducing his famous literary wines, he also publishes books focusing on radical politics and art. A special series is also dedicated to the culture of the Tuscia. His novel, Il Segreto della Donna del Lago is soon to be released in English. See www.enjoy.it/erre-emme.

 

PAOLO SORBA
La Libreria dell’Isola
La Maddalena, Italy

Publisher and bookseller Paolo Sorba is based in La Maddalena, one of the Mediterranean’s most enchanting archipelagos where despite the gales and high waves of winter, his bookstore is open all year round. A side from a rich selection of literary fiction and nonfiction in Italian and English, Sorba’s bookstore is renowned for its huge selection of books dealing with the nature and culture of Sardinia. Unique publications on the history, folklore, traditional arts and crafts, language, gastronomy, enology, flora and fauna, religion, myth, archaeology, navigation, marine science,along with a variety of maps and nautical charts, all pertaining to Sardinia may be found here.Sorba also directs a publishing house dedicated to Sardinian subjects and authors.Recent noteworthy publications include “Le Isole Minori” by Gin Racheli, prolific author who devoted decades to the study of the culture and nature of the Italian islands. www.libreriadellisola.it

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