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 In
the Museo Archeologico, hosted in the former convent
of S. Maria del Riposo, four rooms exhibit the funeral outfits
of the tombs of the Etruscan Curunas and Vipinana families.
For the visit of the Etruscan Necropolises it is recommended
to ask at the museum, because, while some are unguarded and
freely accessible, such as those of the Peschiera area on
the road to Marta, others are guarded, like the necropolis
of the Olivo, with the tomb of the Queen, famous because of
its labyrinthical complexity of its plan.
 The
Centro Storico of Tuscania, placed on the plateau underneath
the hill of San Pietro, has been in great part rebuilt and
renovated after the earthquake of 1971, but in it you may
still breathe the medieval air, thanks to its arches, doorways,
profferli (external staircases), towers and fountains, the
whole surrounded by the town-walls.
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On top of
the hill with the same name, stands the Chiesa di San Pietro,
a famous Romanesque-Longobard monument of the 8th century,
enlarged in the 11th and 12th century. Its front with three
doorways is finely decorated, while inside there are three
majestic aisles, divided by Roman columns , an elevated presbitery,
underneath which a magnificent crypt with cross vaults supported
by 28 marble columns of Roman origin is hidden. The beautiful
apse has been partly rebuilt after the earthquake, which has
also seriously damaged the Roman school frescoes of the 12th
-13th century.
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 At
the foot of the hill stands the ancient Chiesa di S. Maria
Maggiore, build originally in Romanesque-Longobard style
on top of a pre-existing pagan temple in the 8th century and
then modified in the 12th-13th century. Its front has three
richly decorated portals, while in the inside with three aisles
there are a gothic frescoed ciborium, an octagonal immersion
font of the 13th century and frescoes of the 13th and 14th
century.
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