- chapter 36: Etruscan town planning and related structures –
a terrace structure indispensable in the organization of the Etruscan settlement located
near the main gate of the city.^43 She plots a series of lines on the plan of the modern city
that refer to some of the basic directrices of the ancient urban plan (Fig. 36.6). A rapid
examination of the Etruscan remains visible beneath the church of Saints Andrea and
Figure 36.5 Cistern of the Archaic period connected with the main trunk of a cuniculus.Figure 36.6 Plan of the area of the ancient monumental entrance to Orvieto to the West; the dotted
line corresponds to the so-called Muro di Via della Cava (elaborated from Feruglio 1998).