Discovery Abroad: Italy: Sutri, Italy. Sutri is a very ancient city whose origins go back to the late bronze age.

Sutri is a very ancient city whose origins go back to the late bronze age, but it was with the Etruscans that it became most developed. Located in a strategic point that acts as a connection between Etruscan and Roman territories, it was long disputed between the two peoples. Definitively conquered by the Roman Empire, the city was involved in fights between the Lombards and Byzantines for control of central Italy. Occupied first by the Lombards in 728, it was given by King Liutprand to Pope Gregory II becoming the first centre of the Church State.
http://www.bestsmalltownsitaly.com/town/sutri-lazio-center/

This was like the broadway of these parts(my thoughts anyway). It is a theater carved out of volcanic rock(also will show you a chapel made the same way)!
The place is said to be around since 300 BC. Did anyone here make anything during AD? :)
Take a look:

Here are some tombs that are carved around the outside of the theater. What there doing there, I do not know.

I was told that the small compartments were to leave the departed some gifts for their journey.

Pretty awesome, right!!!!!!

Now here was my treat. I had the privilege of going to these places with a local (my host). Five of us we were able to gain access to the Church of the Madonna del Parto. This chapel is not accessible to all that come. They limit access due the the fragile state of the exhibit(they need to keep the the cave environment to a constant). When you first enter the church you are greeted with this mural that takes your breath away. To view the chapel you have to walk under the mural and you enter another world. You are breathless not from lack of oxygen by the site and the thought of what it took to build such a place. I did not believe what I saw. A cave chapel!!!!! Glancing up at the ceiling I noticed the thousands of chisel marks that were left buy the builders. I could hear the clanging of each chisel strike, clang, clang, clang!! OK,

I was able to take some pictures of this rare visit. I will like to give you a glimpse!!!