The National Etruscan Museum is a museum of the Etruscan civilization.

Italy's finest collection of pre-Roman Etruscan treasures is considerately presented in Villa Giulia, Pope Julius III's 16th-century pleasure palace.

Exhibits, many bronze figurines and black bucchero tableware to temple decorations, terracotta vases and a dazzling display of sophisticated jewellery.

Must-sees include the terracotta funerary monument, the almost life-size Bride and Groom (the so-called Sarcofago degli Sposi, or Sarcophagus of the Spouses), reclining as if they were at a dinner party.

Don't miss also the Etruscan-Phoenician Pyrgi Tablets, the Apollo of Veii, the Cista Ficoroni and the Tita Vendia vase.