Albano:città da scoprire


	The story of this striking monument is a fascinating and somewhat mysterious one, as it is said to be the tomb of the legendary Horatii and Curiatii brothers. Its structure is quite unique and reminds us of the Etruscan cinerary urns form Volterra. The high square base which, like the rest of the monument, is built of large peperino blocks, was surmounted by the truncated cones at the corners and possibly a fifth, taller one in the middle, standing on a round drum. The mausoleum was built in the republican period, in the first half of the 1st cent. B.C. and can therefore hardly be connected with the Horatii and Curatii. Some scholars have recently suggested that it was an erudite reconstruction of the tomb of Arruns by members of the ancient Arruntia family, which owned estates in the neighbourhood.
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