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The Ecomuseo del Paesaggio degli Etruschi (Eco museum of Etruscan landscape) protects and enhances the remarkable artistic, archaeological and natural heritage of the area of the Comune di Porano.
The area of the Eco museum is also part of the Parco Archeologico Ambientale dell'Orvietano (PAAO, archaeological-natural Park).
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The area is characterized by historical houses like the eighteen-century Villa Paolina and its charming Italian gardens and by Etruscan tombs of the 4th century B.C.
The tombs preserve original wall paintings that can be seen both on site (e.g. Tomba Hescanas) and at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Orvieto (e.g. Tombe Golini I e II) where the paintings are preserved in a mounting that reproduces accurately the structure of the burial rooms.
You should also visit the small medieval fortified centre of Castel Rubello.
One of the aims of The Ecomuseo del Paesaggio degli Etruschi is to teach, especially to the local community, the identity and characteristics of their landscape, the physical and intangible culture that has taken root in the area through the centuries to make the peculiarities of the area a value that could lead to more coherent choices for a sustainable development.
The Eco museum for years has been working on activities of promotion and enhancement in collaboration with tour guides, environment excursion guides (members of AIGAE, Italian environment excursion guides association), archaeologies and didactic guides. These activities start from the CEA – Visitor Centre of the PAAO in Villa Paolina, headquarter of the Ecomuseo del Paesaggio degli Etruschi.
In the CEA – Visitor Centre of the PAAO in Villa Paolina (former lemon-house) are preserved the nineteenth-century canvases made few years after the discovery (1883) of the Etruscan tomb of Porano (Tomba Hescanas). The canvases are accurate copies of the original wall paintings made to preserve images at the time still sharp. The restored canvases are used as learning material in many workshops.
