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The Marturanum Regional Park is a protected natural area located in northern Lazio, established by Regional Law no.41 of 17 July 1984.
It occupies an area of 1,240 it has fallen into the territory of the municipality of Barbarano Romano in the province of Viterbo.

Territory
The territory was shaped by the volcanic activity Vicana, which ignimbritic flows, about 155.000 years ago, deposited the typical ‘red hull to black rocks’ on the existing Flysch.
The area is therefore characterized by large tufa valleys, covered with dense vegetation, where two main waterways run: the Biedano River and the Vesca River. As evidence of recent volcanism, mineralized thermal springs are also present, abundant in iron.

Fauna
There are numerous mammals along the rivers, including fox, wild boar, rate, author, wild cat, European cocoon, and nutrition. The presence of water and poor human attendance allow the survival of many amphibians, including the rare salamander from the glasses.
Among the birds are: the river nightingale, the small luì, the European marine acornia, the common fisherman martin and the black stork. In the park also nest several species of night and day raptors, among all are cited: the lanarium, the Biancone, the royal nest, the common sparrow, the cheetah and the pilgrim falcon.
In the southern area of the park, characterized by pasture lawn, there are often animals bred in the wild, such as cows and horses of Maremma breed.

Flora
The thick sheltered wood distinguishes the base of the hole, wet and shady, where the black oem, the olm, the white and black poplars, different types of willows, as well as a thick arboreal and shrub vegetation rich in ferns, such as the equiseto. Some species of helophites, partially submerged plants, such as water hemp, water celery, beccabunga and aquatic.

Historical and archaeological resources
The park houses important archaeological evidence covering a temporal arc from the Bronze Age to the Roman era. The Kits of the Villanovian period (first Iron Age, ninth century BC - first half VIII century BC), the protohistoric phase of the Etruscan people.

• Orientalizing age; VIII - VII century BC.

This age takes its name from the Etruscan artistic production of oriental inspiration (Egypt, Syria, Assyria, Cyprus, Urartu kingdoms, Phoenician-Punica area), in the park are an example of circular burial mounds, of ceretan inspiration, called ‘of Cuccumella’, ‘of Caialo’, ‘of the Treasury’ and ‘Cima’.

• Archaic period; VI – V century a. C.

This is the most flourishing period of the Etruscan civilization, characterized by important economic and political advances that allow the spread of greater prosperity. At this time the graves date back to nut and semidado, t