Falerii (Veteres, modern Civita Castellana) is about 50 km north of Rome, in the middle Tiber valley. Falerii can be considered an exceedingly good study case to work on pre-Roman urbanism in central Italy: research over the last 30 years has systematically reconsidered the particularly intense investigations carried out since the last decades of the 19th century. Notwithstanding a particular attention has been posed to the several sacred areas of the city since their discovery, they have been seldom considered with a holistic perspective. Most of them were monumentalized in the 5th c. BC, “lived” well beyond the Roman conquest of 241 BC and even “re-lived” in some cases in the Middle Ages. 

The paper aims at adopting a holistic diachronical perspective to the sacred landscape of the Faliscan “capital”. Two contexts recently reconsiderend under the frame of the Falerii Project (Sapienza Univerisità di Roma) will be analysed in detail: on the one hand the sacred area in the locality Celle, traditionally recognized as the one of Iuno Curitis, and on the other hand the one on the Vignale, where at least the cult of Apollo is epigraphically attested.

Finally particular attention will be posed on the ways in which, after their moment of use, the monuments were "handled" through the centuries, reaching then the "form" in which they were found and archaeologically discovered during the 19th c. In particular this approach will have relevant consequences on the reading of the ancient sacred areas.