Tarquinia and the Etruscans

[room with a view]

We will be arriving in to Civitavecchia 23rd December and do not want to do the usual Rome tours.

Is it possible to visit Tarquinia ?

 

any advice on how to get there ?

 

thanks

[euro cruiser]

You can take a public Cotral bus from near the cruise port shuttle bus drop-off point or you can take a train and a bus from there.

 

The bus stop in Civitavecchia is on Via Settembre XVI, a short walk from the shuttle bus stop. You can purchase the bus ticket (€1,30) along the way from any tabacco store.

 

The ride takes just under a half hour and the stop in Tarquinia is called Barriera S. Giusto (located at Piazza Cavour in Tarquinia).

 

 

Some of the pages of the Tarquinia tourism site are in English: http://www.tarquiniaturismo.it/en/

 

The Cotral web site is a little harder to figure out but you can see the bus schedule to Tarquinia by first inputing "DA CIVITAVECCHIA" and "A TARQUINIA".

 

Next, to get the specific bus schedules select these two:

 

Partenza da p.zza Vittorio

and

Transita per / Arriva a Barriera S.Giusto

 

Cotral site: http://servizi.cotralspa.it/Orari

Edited November 26, 2016 by euro cruiser

[cruisemom42]

To add to eurocruiser's good logistics, the bus stop at Tarquinia will put you very close to the excellent Etruscan museum there.

 

You will probably also want to visit the necropolis, with its wonderful painted tombs. You can walk it from the museum in about 30 minutes, or you can take a local bus from near the same place where your bus dropped you.

 

It used to be that only a few tombs were open on any given day, but when I was there about two years ago, nearly all of the tombs were open (albeit behind a plexiglas viewing area that could sometimes be extremely smudged and frustrating....

[room with a view]

A big thanks to both Euro Cruiser and Cruise Mom for exactly the information we needed .