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Faggeto: Finding the Etruscan Tomb

Your best approach will be from Umbertide to the N, or Perugia to the S; most practically, after that, from Pierantonio — between the two on the E45; and from there an easy, wide road wends you SW to the village of S. Giovanni del Pantano, which is the real start of your adventure.

Your next step is to take the little road to the cemetery, then keep on going, eventually turning north. "At a certain point", as some helpful soul in S. Giovanni will have told you, you turn left; this is your turn:

If you don't turn here — marked private property, and strictly forbidden — you will get lost; take it from someone who's been there. I was told later that while such do not enter signs dot the Umbrian landscape they are often themselves not legal, the roads in question being public thoroughfares; I can't confirm that, either generally or in the case of this particular road.

You know you're in the right place when you see this:

Take my word for it: this is a front-on view of our Etruscan tomb from not very far away.

If that's not quite as helpful as you'd hoped, you're looking for this logging trail:

Shortly after this, you should be on foot; a car can't get thru. If you're really lucky, you will see this welcome sight:

After a bumpy ride up some fairly steep gradients, you've arrived.

The Tomba del Faggeto: Etruscan, 2c B.C., and miles from anywhere; my warm thanks to Mr. Andrea Baglioni, without whom I still wouldn't have seen it.

If I ever get back to this place, I will bring a hand-held GPS — not available to me within my budget at 2004 prices — and post the exact location here. If you are at all interested in things Etruscan, it's well worth it, as you'll see on the next page.

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