A report on Veneto and Etruscan civilization

Extent of Etruscan civilisation and the twelve Etruscan League cities.

Biconical cinerary urn with crest-shaped helmet lid, 9th–8th century BC, from Monterozzi (Fontanaccia), Tarquinia, Museo archeologico nazionale

Venice, the primary tourist destination and the capital of Veneto

Urn in the shape of a hut, which represents the typical Etruscan house of the Villanovan phase, 8th century BC, from Vulci, Musée d'art et d'histoire de Genève

Etruscan pendant with swastika symbols from Bolsena, Italy, 700–650 BC. Louvre

Putto Graziani, hollow-cast bronze on which is engraved the Etruscan inscription "To the god Tec Sans as a gift" (Tec Sans was the protectress of childhood), 3-2nd century BC, Rome, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco

Sarcophagus of the Spouses, about 1st century BC, Volterra, Museo etrusco Guarnacci

Painted terracotta Sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, about 150–130 BC.

Ethnic groups of Italy (as defined by today's borders) in 400 BC

Etruscan territories and major spread pathways of Etruscan products

The Tetrarchs were the four co-rulers who governed the Roman Empire as long as Diocletian's reform lasted. Here they are portrayed embracing, in a posture of harmony, in a porphyry sculpture dating from the 4th century, produced in Anatolia, located today on a corner of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

The Mars of Todi, an Etruscan bronze sculpture, c. 400 BC

The Horses of Saint Mark, brought as loot from Constantinople in 1204.

A former Etruscan walled town, Civita di Bagnoregio

An 18th-century view of Venice by Canaletto.

The Capitoline Wolf, long considered an Etruscan bronze, feeding the twins Romulus and Remus

The 13th-century Castel Brando in Cison di Valmarino, Treviso.

Sarcophagus of the Spouses, (Louvre, Room 18)

St Mark's Basilica, the seat of the Patriarch of Venice.

Etruscan warrior, found near Viterbo, Italy, dated c. undefined 500 BC

3D view, facing west, of the Etruscan Hypogeum of the Volumnis, Perugia, Italy, cut from a laser scan

5th century BC fresco of dancers and musicians, Tomb of the Leopards, Monterozzi necropolis, Tarquinia, Italy

Janiform kantharos, Etruscan pottery, second half of the 4th century BC.

The Prato della Valle in Padua, a work of Italian Renaissance architecture.

Cippus Perusinus. 3rd–2nd century BC, San Marco near Perugia

Samples of Etruscan script, from the Liber linteus

Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss.

The Church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice

A trait that shows the structure of the Calà del Sasso

The Etruscan civilization of ancient Italy covered a territory, at its greatest extent, of roughly what is now Tuscany, western Umbria, and northern Lazio, as well as what are now the Po Valley, Emilia-Romagna, south-eastern Lombardy, southern Veneto, and western Campania.

- Etruscan civilization

In the 7th–6th centuries BC the local populations of Veneto entered into contact with the Etruscans and the Greeks.

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The Padan Plain in Northern Italy (green) and the Po river basin in the Plain (red circle)

Po Valley

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Major geographical feature of Northern Italy.

Map showing the river Po and tributaries in the Padan Plain. Note the numerous Italian Lakes on the margin of the Alps.

The regions of Italy as defined by the government of Italy. According to the Po Basin Water Board, the valley includes: 14) Piedmont, 2) Aosta Valley, 11) Lombardy, 20) Veneto, 10) Liguria, 7) Emilia-Romagna, 17) Trentino-Alto Adige, and 8) Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Carmagnola, countryside near the river Po

Rice fields in the province of Vercelli, eastern Piedmont.

Landscape of the Bassa: a farm in the province of Cremona, southern Lombardy.

Natural vegetation (central-European broadleaved trees) of the Padan Plain

The Po Valley as seen by the ESA's Sentinel-2.

1585 map depicting the eastern Po Valley and river delta, Vatican Museums.

The flatlands of Veneto and Friuli are often considered apart since they do not drain into the Po, but they effectively combine into an unbroken plain, making it the largest in Southern Europe.

After the progressive immigration in the 7th century BC of Celtic peoples known as the Insubres (hence the name of Insubria sometimes being given to northwestern Lombardy), the southern and central regions were conquered and colonised here and there by a pre-Indo-European people, the Etruscans, who left names such as Parma, Ravenna and Felsina, the ancient name of Bologna.

Lombardy

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One of the twenty administrative regions of Italy.

Pizzo Coca is the highest peak in the Bergamasque Alps (3,050 m)

The Adda, the longest river within the region and tributary of the Po

The Rock Drawings in Valcamonica are among the largest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs in the world.

For centuries, the Iron Crown of Lombardy was used in the Coronation of the King of Italy.

Member cities of the first and second Lombard League

The Consulta of the République cisalpine receives the First Consul on 26 January 1802

A view over the business district of Milan: with a metropolitan area of 7.4m people, it is Italy's most important industrial, commercial and financial center.

Palazzo Lombardia, the main seat of the government of Lombardy.

The provinces/metropolitan cities of Lombardy

The Last Supper, Convent of Sta. Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy (1499), by Leonardo da Vinci

The Floating Piers by Christo and Jeanne-Claude on Lake Iseo (2016)

Gorgonzola cheese takes its name from the homonymous city near Milan

The auditorium of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Dolce & Gabbana is headquartered in Milan.

Provolone Valpadana (pasta filata cheese)

It is bordered by Switzerland (north: Canton Ticino and Canton Graubünden) and by the Italian regions of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Veneto (east), Emilia-Romagna (south), and Piedmont (west).

In the following centuries it was inhabited by different peoples, among whom were the Etruscans, who founded the city of Mantua and spread the use of writing.

Adriatic Sea

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Body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Illyrian Peninsula.

Bay of Kotor, a ria in the Southern Adriatic

Gjipe Canyon in southern Albania, where the Adriatic Sea meets the Ionian Sea

Schematic layout of Adriatic Sea currents

A submarine spring near Omiš, observed through sea surface rippling

As seen from the map, most of the landmass surrounding the Adriatic sea is classified as Cfa, with the southern region (near the Ionian sea) being Csa.

Sediment billowing out from Italy's shore into the Adriatic

Pebble beach at Brač island, in the Adriatic Sea within Croatia

Pula Arena, one of the six largest surviving Roman amphitheatres

Mosaic of Emperor Justinian and his court, from the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy

The Republic of Venice was a leading maritime power in Europe

The last moments of SMS Szent István, hit and sank by the Italian MAS

The Duce Benito Mussolini in a beach of Riccione, in 1932

The town of Izola in the Gulf of Koper, southwestern Slovenia

A Trabucco, old fishing machine typical of Abruzzo region in Italy

Port of Trieste, the largest port in the Adriatic

Rimini is a major seaside tourist resort in Italy

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The Zlatni Rat (Golden Cape) on the island of Brač

The Palace of the Emperor Diocletian in Split

The coast of Neum, the only town to be situated along Bosnia and Herzegovina's {{convert|20|km|0|abbr=on}} of coastline

Portorož is the largest seaside tourist centre in Slovenia

Port of Durrës, the largest port in Albania

Port of Rijeka, the largest cargo port in Croatia

Port of Koper, the largest port in Slovenia

Port of Trieste, the largest cargo port in the Adriatic

Port of Bar, the largest seaport in Montenegro

The earliest settlements on the Adriatic shores were Etruscan, Illyrian, and Greek.

The Adriatic Sea is a semi-enclosed sea, bordered in the southwest by the Apennine or Italian Peninsula, in the northwest by the Italian regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and in the northeast by Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania—the Balkan peninsula.