Chiusi has always been considered one of the most ancient Etruscan town. And the most important historical figure of that period was King Porsenna that at the end of 6th century B.C. besieged and conquered Rome.
Through the century King Porsenna became a legend and many places in Chiusi remind us of its figure, like the “Porsenna’s Labyrinth”, an underground network of narrow tunnels part of a complex and clever Etruscan hydraulic system. The accessible part of this tunnels is 130 metres long and represents a proof of how much advanced was the knowledge of the Etruscan civilization.
Another interesting place to visit in Chiusi is the “Underground City” where along 150 metres of tunnels has been arranged the “Epigraphic” section, the unique Italian exhibition dedicated to the Etruscan funerary epigraphy. More than 300 urns and 200 grave tiles with Etruscan inscriptions are collected here and represents an incredible historical heritage. The tunnels end at an incredible underground lake.
Chiusi was considered a coveted location because its soil was fertile for the agriculture and its position was strategic. The town in fact was built along an important commercial “road”, the Chiana river, that was navigable at that time and joining the Tiber river flew into the Tyrrhenian Sea.

Chiusi is sorrounded by hills and many of them in the Etruscan period where burial grounds. At the end of the 18th Century more than a thousand of graves where discovered in Chiusi and the surrounding area.

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