Chiusi and King Porsenna
The territory of Chiusi it's historically inhabited from the XI a.C..
The ancient Camar becomes in the VI a.C. the city (lucumonia) Etruscan of Clevsin, an of most powerful city of the Etruscan Dodecapoli.
The legendary Lucumone Porsenna arrived even to attach the still young Rome.
Become Roman town Chiusi continued to be a center of notable commercial importance.
Then, in correspondence of the fall of the Romano empire, a slow decline of occupations (Goti and Longobardi) up to become a Earl under the Franchi of Charles Magno.
The decadence was accented with the swamp of the Valdichiana and, after many small local wars between Perugia Orvieto and Siena, it in the 1415 spent definitely under Siena and subsequently under the Granducato from Tuscany.
Of these 25 centuries the territory of Chiusi preserve all one series of historical finds and of interesting monuments.
Numerous they are in fact the graves of the Etruscan present period in the territory.
Unfortunately they almost all result be not visitable for varieties motives.
Beside the local Archeologicosono Museum available guides authorize, with which you will visit any graves otherwise dams.
For the visit to the Museum of the Cathedral of Chiusi and/or to Labyrinth of Porsenna (with visit to the Bell Tower) you need to arrive the Portico of the Palace Episcopalian where they are situated the respective entries.
To the Museum of the Cathedral they are available the guides authorize with which you will visit the Christian Catacombs used from II to V AD.
The Etruscan necropolises
Grave of the Monkey
Tomba della Pellegrina
Grave of the Leo
Grave of the Granduca
Grave of Gaiella Knoll
Grave of Vigna Grande
Grave of Casuccini Knoll
Grave of Tassinaia
Grave of Moro Knoll
The Christian Catacombs
Catacomb of St. Mustiola
Catacomb of St. Caterina
The Cathedral of St. Secondiano and attached (the center of Chiusi)
Cathedral of St. Secondiano and Bell Tower
Labyrinth of Porsenna and Roman cistern
The medioeval Towers
Tower of Beccati Questo
Tower of Beccati Quello
Plaza from Cathedral constitutes the historical heart of Chiusi.
In around fifty meters there are the Archaeological National Museum, the Cathedral of St. Secondiano (VI AD) with the attached Museum of the Cathedral and Labyrinth
the Bishop palace (XV AD) with the Etruscan and Romans headstones walled in the portico and the Bell Tower (XII AD)
built above the communicating ancient Roman cistern.
from the Bell tower (tall 27 meters) the panorama on the environs is notable.
His slope has dissuaded to whoever he suffers of dizziness.
Labyrinth of Porsenna is substantially a series of burrows (any in phase of exploration) that they intersect almost all Chiusi old.
The burrows are of Etruscan origin (they exist some of similar to Todi, to Orvieto and to Perugia) and they had dug with the purpose of digest the rain water.
In Labyrinth you will cross around 120 meters sufficiently illuminated and practicable without particular equipments or clothing (if any dissuade the visit to whoever suffers of claustrophobia).
The underground run has beginning in the by of the ancient Roman boundaries (zone Episcopalian gardens) it finish inside the Roman cistern under the Bell Tower.
Subsequently it with the same ticket is possible visit the Bell Tower also..
Big it was the disappointment of the archaeologists when in labyrinth they didn't find the mythical grave of Porsenna King that, he according to Plinio had stayed buried under the city of Chiusi in a monument from the plinth of 90 meters of side (!) and that it contained a labyrinth surmounted from pyramids and from a coverage of bronze.
To remember the medioeval struggles between Chiusi (Siena) and the neighbors Orvieto and Perugia today there are these two small towers situated along a channel tributary of the near lake of Chiusi (html file).
The towers said of "Pecked this" and "Pecked at that" have succeeded, also with any affliction, to arrive to the days of today, while the historical bridge of "to pecked at that" (that it united the towers) has disappeared (you can see [if it hasn't burnt in the pyre of the castle of Windsor] the map "of the view to flight of bird of the Valdichiana" designed from Leonardo from Vinci in the 1502- Royal Library n°12278).
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