Have you ever been in the Italian Maremma? A place of long long histrly wchich goes back from the Etruscan times ( which means six centuries BC to the Middle Age). An unknown but beautiful little place is Tuscania, a little more than 100 km north of Rome. Tha city has its midleage walls and a tuw churches which are a masterpiece of the Roman-lombard architecture of the XII century. A lovely small town with the athmosphere of the old lost times. But Tuscania is not only this: it has an Etruscan necropolis with a special item: the Queens' grotto, a very deep hole in the ground basically unexsplored because it goes very deep inside the ground which has been seen as the "omaggio" of the people to the Magna Mater, the Goddess who gives the live to all the world.
Near Tuscania is the town of Canino very famous for one of the nost excellent olive oils in Italy but mainly to have beeen the fief of Luciano Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon but loyal to the Pope Pius VII who entroned him as prince of Canino and allowed him tostart archeological excavations in the area. A statue of Luciano is in the main square of Canino and not so far is a magnificent restaurant called Archibusi where is possible to buy excellent olive by the producers. But if you like the soft athmosfere of Tuscania, then you can have a magnificent lunch or dinner at La Piazzetta: your host Alfiero is there to help you and "buon appettito"
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