. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. a,passed the gates of Viterbo, and gave these ordersto our guide 1 Sir William Gell thus speaks of Castel dAssoand the glens adjoining: Near Ronciglione andSutri stands Blera or Bieda, a town of ancientEtruria. The population is still considerable, andthere are several remains of antiquity, consistingchiefly of tombs cut in the rock and walls. AtSan Giovanni di Bieda, on the road betweenVetralla and Viterbo, are several sepulchres in therock, with mouldings of genuine Etruscan architec-ture; a stream running from Blera has here wornin the soft volc
. Tour to the sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. a,passed the gates of Viterbo, and gave these ordersto our guide 1 Sir William Gell thus speaks of Castel dAssoand the glens adjoining: Near Ronciglione andSutri stands Blera or Bieda, a town of ancientEtruria. The population is still considerable, andthere are several remains of antiquity, consistingchiefly of tombs cut in the rock and walls. AtSan Giovanni di Bieda, on the road betweenVetralla and Viterbo, are several sepulchres in therock, with mouldings of genuine Etruscan architec-ture; a stream running from Blera has here wornin the soft volcanic stone a deep valley with rockysides. * The Etruscans delighted in tombs excavated insuch situations, and those in this valley are both ex-traordinary and numerous. The stream unites withanother from near Viterbo, which, like the former,presents on its banks, at Castel dAsso, a series oftombs, and also inscriptions, which can only becompared with those in the valley of the tombs ofthe Kings, Biban el Mclek, near Thebes. Another / / / ?.
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