The “impluvium” house

The “impluvium” house was built on the northern hill between the seventh and sixth century BC. Its walls are made of stone and clay, while the roof is of terracotta tiles. The house contained a basin called impluvium, used to collect the rainwater trickling down from the sloping roof, which was channeled to a cistern. In addition to rainwater, the Etruscans also collected water from aquifers by digging deep wells. Today many examples of this can be seen in Rusellae.