A small centre of human tradition gathered within a belt of megalithic walls the Civitas Vetus, the Acropolis still radiates fascination and a sense of archaic life to the tourist who visits it. Civitavecchia was probably the original nucleus of a primitive Volscian settlement (7th-6th century) built as a defence on a place high and steep and then fortified by massive walls. The greatness of these walls, which can be seen in other towns of the Volscians (Atina, Aquinum, Sora, Signia, Arcis) and of the Ernicians (Aletrium), suggested popular imagination to call them Pelasgian in memory of the mythical pre-Hellenic Pelasgians or Cyclopeans, Homer’s giants. Yet, they should be called polygonal because of the shape of the big stones which stand one upon the other without mortar.
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