Banishing The Magic
Moai was contended since his birth in Vitorchiano, a medieval town in Tuscia, a rugged stretch of Lazio.
Ignoble Farmhouse
Here was an unspoiled countryside set amid rounded mountains covered with chestnut trees.
The House in the Novel
Vitorchiano is Etruscan territory and originally was probably a colony of the larger Etruscan town of Norchia. Fragments of an Etruscan wall stand near the Vitorchiano cemetery, and all along the gorge atop of which the old town stands, dozens of Etruscan tombs and grottoes are carved.