After the death of Bartolomeo d'Alviano, the condottiero born here, his wife Pantasilea Baglioni had a Madonna and Child with saints painted in the church, perhaps with a portrait of her husband. Pordenone signed it: one of the very few works of his that are certain in central Italy.
The stronghold was built in 996 by count Offredo, who had come from Germany with Otto III, and from him came the Alviano line. The castle you see today is fifteenth-century: inside are the museum of peasant life and the museum of the condottieri. In 1963 a dam on the Tiber created the lake, now a WWF reserve. The 1,514 residents make oil.
Lago di Alviano
Orvieto
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Next up: Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Francis, patrons of a Pordenone town, Sunday 15 August
Nearest airport: Perugia San Francesco, 59 km away
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📅 Every year, on 15 August and 4 October
Alviano celebrates Our Lady of the Assumption on 15 August and Saint Francis of Assisi on 4 October; the church dedicated to her, renewed in the 16th century by Bartolomeo d'Alviano, holds a panel by Niccolò Alunno from 1484.
A white wine carved into Etruscan tufa history, toasted by Garibaldi's Thousand: Orvieto has held Denominazione di Origine Controllata status since 1971.
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