The economic and cultural life of this etruscan town, already lively in the late age of bronze, intensified furtherly in the eastern period (VII century a.C.). 
The land of Vulci was very wide and included a lot of centres: Orbetello, Saturnia, Pescia, Sovana, Castro, Pitigliano and Marsiliana. 
The VI century a.C. was the moment of the flourishing of the area.  
In the III century a.C. Rome made war on Vulci; then the defeat of Vulci, happened in the 280 a.C., the Romans took possession of the greater part of the land where the roman colony of Cosa, the prefecture of Saturnia and Statonia, and Forum Aurelii. 
Althought the construction of Aurelia street (240 a.C.), the decay of the town begun in the III century a.C. and went on till the imperial late. 
The town has the shape of irregular trapezium. 

Are visible: 

• the rests of the surrounding wall (V - VI century a.C.) with four doors,
• two bridges, one near the Castle of Badia (I century a.C.) and the other (said Broken Bridge) at south (I century d.C.),
• the rests of a big temple (m. 36*25), with obvious signs of restoration that go back at the beginning of the I century a.C.,
• the  milestone of the Aurelio Cotta consul, builder of the Aurelia street, where is showed the distance from Rome (70 miles),
• domus republican late with floors mosaic with geometric shape,
• numerous etruscan tombs, between them of particular interesting are Cuccumella and Francois.