Cerveteri
—  Comune  —
Comune di Cerveteri
Coat of arms
Cerveteri Location of Cerveteri in Italy
Coordinates: 42°00′N 12°06′E / 42°N 12.1°E / 42; 12.1
Country	Italy
Region	Lazio
Province	Rome
Frazioni	Sasso, Ceri, Valcanneto, Marina di Cerveteri, Cerenova, Campo di mare, San Martino, I Terzi, Due Casette
Government
• Mayor	Alessio Pascucci
Area
• Total	134.43 km2 (51.90 sq mi)
Elevation	81 m (266 ft)
Population (30 April 2009)
• Total	35,517
• Density	260/km2 (680/sq mi)
Demonym	Cerveterani
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	00052
Dialing code	06
Patron saint	St. Michael Archangel
Saint day	May 8
Website	Official website

Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia *
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Country	Italy
Type	Cultural
Criteria	i, iii, iv
Reference	1158
Region **	Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription	2004 (28th Session)
* Name as inscribed on World Heritage List ** Region as classified by UNESCO

Cerveteri [tʃerˈvɛːteri] is a town and comune of the northern Lazio, in the province of Rome. Originally known as Caere (also Caisra and Cisra), it is famous for a number of Etruscan necropolis that include some of the best Etruscan tombs anywhere.

Via degli Inferi, the main entrance to the Banditaccia Necropolis.

Main sights[link]

Necropolis of the Banditaccia[link]

The most famous attraction of Cerveteri is the Necropoli della Banditaccia, which has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site together with the necropoleis in Tarquinia. It covers an area of 400 ha, of which 10 ha can be visited, encompassing a total of 1,000 tombs often housed in characteristic mounds. It is the largest ancient necropolis in the Mediterranean area. The name Banditaccia comes from the leasing (bando) of areas of land to the Cerveteri population by the local landowners.

The tombs date from the 9th century BC (Villanovan culture) to the late Etruscan age (3rd century BC). The most ancient ones are in the shape of a pit, in which the ashes of the dead were housed; also simple potholes are present.

From the Etruscan period are two types of tombs: the mounds and the so-called "dice", the latter being simple square tombs built in long rows along "roads". The visitable area contains two such "roads", the Via dei Monti Ceriti and the Via dei Monti della Tolfa (6th century BC).

The mounds are circular structures built in tuff, and the interiors, carved from the living rock, house a reconstruction of the house of the dead, including a corridor (dromos), a central hall and several rooms. Modern knowledge of Etruscan daily life is largely dependent on the numerous decorative details and finds from such tombs. The most famous of these mounds is the so-called Tomba dei Rilievi (Tomb of the Reliefs, 3rd century BC), identified from an inscription as belonging to one Matunas and provided with an exceptional series of frescoes, bas-reliefs and sculptures portraying a large series of contemporary life tools.

Etruscan phallic symbols. "Cippi" indicating that tomb occupants were male

The most recent tombs date from the 3rd century BC. Some of them are marked by external cippi, which are cylindrical for men, and in the shape of a small house for women.

A large number of finds excavated at Cerveteri are in the National Etruscan Museum, Rome, with others in the Vatican Museums and many other museums around the world. Others, mainly pottery, are in the Archaeological Museum at Cerveteri itself.

Others[link]

• The Rocca (castle)
• Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, including a medieval section reachable from the 1950s addition through a triumphal arch.
• Palazzo Ruspoli, rebuilt as baronal palace by the Orsini in 1533. The portico and the loggia on the façade are from the 17th century. It is connected to Santa Maria Maggiore through a passetto (enclosed bridge), built in 1760.
• The small church of Sant'Antonio Abate, with a 1472 fresco by Lorenzo da Viterbo.
• The medieval burgh of Ceri
• Castle of Cerenova

Cerveteri DOC[link]

Around the city of Cerveteri is an Italian DOC wine region that produces red and white blended wines. The red wines are blends of 60% Sangiovese and Montepulciano, 25% Cesanese and up to 30% of Canaiolo, Carignan and Barbera. The grapes are limited to a harvest yield of 15 tonnes/ha and the final wine must have a minimum alcohol level of 11%. The white wines are composed of a minimum blend of 50% Trebbiano, Romagnolo and Giallo, a maximum of 35% Malvasia di Candia and a maximum of 15% Friulano, Verdicchio, Bellone and Bombino Bianco. The grapes are limited to a harvest yield of 14 tonnes/ha and the final wine must have a minimum alcohol level of 12%.^[1]

Twin cities[link]

• Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
• Livry-Gargan, France
• Almuñécar, Spain

See also[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Cerveteri

References[link]

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Piero Angela
300 px Piero Angela in 1993
Born	(1928-12-22) December 22, 1928 (age 83) Turin, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Science Journalist Pianist
Religion	Atheist
Children	Alberto Angela

Piero Angela, Grand Officer OMRI (born 22 December 1928) is an Italian science journalist and writer, and pianist. He was born in Turin.

Biography[link]

Music[link]

Son of the Turinese physician and antifascist Carlo Angela, around the age of seven he began taking private piano lessons and developing interest in jazz music. At the age of twenty, in 1948, he was performing jam sessions in various jazz clubs around Italy. In the same year he was noticed by entrepreneur Sergio Bernardini, who invited him to play at the opening evening of the Capannina night club in Forte dei Marmi.

In the early 1950s he formed a musical trio, along with drummer Franco Mondini and several alternating double bassists. The trio often played with other artists, such as Nini Rosso, Franco Pisano and former Duke Ellington cornetist Rex Stewart.

Hired by RAI, at the time the Italian State radio broadcaster, in 1952 Angela stopped his professional music work to devote himself to journalism. Angela sometimes played piano in one of his TV scientific programs.

Journalism[link]

His first job at RAI was as a reporter and collaborator of the radio news; with the advent of television in 1954 Angela became a correspondent for the television news, first from Paris and later from Brussels, from 1955 to 1968. Together with Andrea Barbato, he anchored the first lunchtime edition of the Italian TV news in 1968 and, in 1976, became the first anchorman of the newly born second Italian network.

Influenced by Roberto Rossellini, in 1968 Piero Angela realized a series of documentaries titled Il futuro nello spazio ("Future in space"), centered on the Apollo Program and the quest of taking the first astronaut to the Moon). Thus began his long activity of informal science education, that brought him to host and produce several information programs in the following years.

Science education[link]

At the end of the 1970s, Angela decided to entirely devote himself to scientific TV programs and in 1981 went on to produce Quark, the first show of the kind in Italy aimed at a general public.

The format relied on the most advanced technological means and the latest communication techniques available at the time, in order to make scientific topics accessible to the average family. Examples include featuring documentaries by the BBC and by David Attenborough, or cartoons by Bruno Bozzetto in order to help visualize the most abstract concepts; interviewing experts who strove to use the simplest possible language adequate to the complexity of subjects; or staging experiments and explanations directly in the studio. This first program originated many different spin-offs, some of which still exist, dedicated to different subjects: naturalistic documentaries (Quark speciale and Il mondo di Quark), finance (Quark Economia) and politics (Quark Europa).

In 1984 a new project, Pillole di Quark, first aired on Rai Uno, consisting of short 30-second clips about technical, medical, scientific, social and educational topics. In the same year Piero Angela produced the first talk-show to mix entertainment with science education finalities: six prime-time shows with live public interacting with public figures from culture, science, media and sports.

In 1986 and in 1987, from Turin's indoor arena, he hosted two prime-time events aired on Rai Uno centered on climate problems, followed by three TV series exploiting newly developed computer graphics technologies, staging a trip inside the human body (La Macchina meravigliosa: eight episodes), life in pre-human times (Il pianeta dei dinosauri: four episodes), and outer space (Viaggio nel cosmo: seven episodes). Such series, realized with the collaboration of his son Alberto, was translated into English and sold in over forty countries in Europe, the Americas and Asia (including Arabic countries and China).

Quark italiani, a series of documentaries about nature, the environment, explorations, and the animal world, produced and filmed by Italian authors (among which Alberto Angela, who realized some documentaries in Africa), also aired in 1988.

In 1995 Superquark was launched, and on 4 June 1999 two thousand episodes of the Quark franchise were celebrated. In the same year Speciali di Superquark (evenings dedicated to a single issue of great social, psychological and scientific interest) was also kicked off, and a collaboration was started with the Sunday TV program Domenica In, where Piero Angela hosted a space devoted to culture.

Since 2000 Piero and Alberto Angela also produce and host Ulisse, a program consisting of episodes centered about historical and scientific subjects.

Piero Angela shakes hands with 12 years-old Marina Brunello at the Turin 2006 chess olympiad.

Together with his popular activity on television, Piero Angela has been active in scientific awareness publishing. He is the long-time editor of the space "Scienza e società" on the magazine TV Sorrisi e Canzoni; in 2001 he founded the monthly magazine Quark, modeled on the show of the same name, which he also edited and supervised, and later closed in 2006 for lack of funds.

Piero Angela is also the author of over thirty books, many of which translated into English, German and Spanish, with overall sales volume of over three million copies.

In 1989 Piero Angela was among the co-founders of CICAP, an association promoting scientific and critical investigation of claims on paranormal phenomena.

During his long career Piero Angela has received numerous recognitions in Italy and other countries, among which the Kalinga Prize of UNESCO for his contributions to public awareness of science, and several honorary degrees (currently eight).

He likes to play chess from time to time, though he never takes part in tournaments. In 2006 he was a guest of honour at the 37th Chess Olympiad, played in his home city.

List of television programs[link]

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All the following programs have been broadcast by Rai Uno.

• Il futuro nello spazio (1968)
• Destinazione uomo (1971)
• Da zero a tre anni
• Dove va il mondo?
• Nel buio degli anni luce
• Indagine sulla parapsicologia (1978)
• Nel cosmo alla ricerca della vita (1980)
• Quark (since 1981), and related sister projects:
  • Pillole di Quark (since 1983)
  • Il mondo di Quark (since 1984)
  • Quark Economia (1986)
  • Quark Europa (1986)
  • Quark Speciale
  • Quark Scienza
  • Enciclopedia di Quark (1993)
  • Superquark (since 1994)
  • Speciali di Superquark (since 1999)
• La macchina meravigliosa (1990)
• Serata Oceano (1991)
• Il pianeta dei dinosauri (1993)
• Viaggio nel cosmo (1998)

References[link]