The Etruscan Tomb of Faggeto

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First, it is very difficult to get to, and even to find, and must see a visitor maybe no more than every other year, if that. If you're tempted to try, I'll walk you thru the sequence as best I can, and show you a bit of the landscape too.

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The structure itself is a small chamber tomb which would be quite ordinary were it not for one thing: its monolithic half-ton stone door incorporates a pair of pivots that work like hinges; and 2200 years after the tomb was built, the door opens and closes easily.