Author: Todd Bishop

More travel photography. Not great pictures, but a very cool place where nobody ever goes. On our 2003 Italy trip several of us drove to Norchia, an Etruscan tomb site with some medieval ruins. In […]

Climbing down the canyon wall. Norchia was featured in the book “Under The Tuscan Sun”, and the author was a little freaked out by it. The only freaky thing we encountered was the caretaker, a […]

Friend Gina near a fountain-like structure.  

Friends Jason and Michael explore.  

The floor of the canyon.  

View of the tombs from the hill.  

Michael in the Etruscan columbarium on the acropolis. 

Here’s the cathedral. 

The first thing you encounter at the top of the hill is the remains of the medieval fortress. What’s amazing about the site is the span of time it covers. It was occupied by the […]

Jason exploring the ruins.