ABSTRACT

What the Etruscan city – once it could be called a city1 – looked like depends in great part on the structures of an immaterial nature, those social structures functional in the urban fabric for which they were created, as well as the purely material aspects. One of the most notable cases often dealt with is the forum of Rome,2 the political center of the Urbs, which entailed reclamation work beginning with one of its kings of Etruscan origins.3