A
group of students from I.E.S. de Catabois in Ferrol have travelled to
Bassano Romano in Italy as part of an exchange of students during
the present scholastic year 2018/2019. One of the most interesting
places we visited during our stay was the town of Tarquinia and the
Etrurian necropolis of Monterozzi, which is located in the town
outskirts.
Monterozzi
has about 6,000 tombs which are classified as: external tombs or
underground chamber tombs. The external ones are more ancient and
display funny shapes as if they were huge mush-rooms of the Boletus
family. The corpse of the dead was incinerated and the ashes were put
in clay made funerary urns which were kept inside the stoned-coffin
like the one in the photograph.
