Inhabitants, n. 7.901, at 09/15/ 96.
Altitude Mt., 165 [mt]. [s.l.m]
Distances: Rome Km. 90, Viterbo Km. 22, Tarquinia Km. 24 (Beach, 28), Montalto of Castro Km. 26, Marta (Lake of Bolsena) Km.14, Civitavecchia Km. 40.
HISTORICAL SIGNS
Etruscan center from the VIII cent. B.C.; flourishing in the IV and III centuries.
Roman town hall from the III cent. B.C.
Important diocese, with center in the Episcopalian palace on S.Pietro's hill, from VI to XII century. Free Common in the XII and XIV centuries. Dominion at the end of the XIV and to the beginning of the XV century. It decayed to modest, but illustrious, center of the Pontifical State in the XVI century, rich of history up to the beginnings of the XX century, when the expansion urbanism took back also leaving unchanged the Medieval plant. In the 1971 an earthquake damaged seriously the historical center, for succefful restauration.
Name. Tuscana in classical epoch; it changed in Toscanella during the Medieval. Tuscania from the 1911.
Monuments. Near town, particularly along rivers, stays many Etruscan and Roman necropolis, with Etruscan tombs that has returned many things of Curunas family (IV- II cent. B.C.), now in show, with furnishings, inside Archaeological National Museum of S.Maria del Riposo(XV cent.).
In Medieval historical center,you can see the beautiful Roman basilicas of S.Pietro (VIII-XI-XIII cent.) and better S.Maria (VIII-XII cent.), now out of the inhabited area, it's completely surrounded from his boundaries, that was center of the free Common of the Guilds (XII- XIII cent.) and subsequently of the Podesta (XIII- XIV- XV cent.).
You can see, in the historical center: the churches of S.Maria of the Rose (XIV cent.), S.Marco (XIV cent.), S.Silvestro (XIII cent.), S.Giacomo (Cathedral, XVI cent., with painted main points) and S.Francesco (XIV cent.) with De Sparapane's chapel; the fountains of Sette Cannelle (1309), Poggio (1621), Montascide (1623), etc.
Other: Town hall's square with Etruscan's sarcophagi , the park of "Torre di Lavello" and other.
Culinary specialty: game, rustic and popular dishes (chicory, cooked- water, snails etc.), pastas and sweetses.
Fairs and parties:
- January 17 S.Antonio abbot, Feast of the Pancake of Cauliflower.
- Friday Saint Procession of the Dead Christ.
- May 10 Fair with horse demonstrations.
- August 7, 8, 9 Parties - Tuscania Summer.
- September 15 "Procession of the Our Lady of Sorrows."
- September Tuscania Festival (visual arts and theater).