The name comes from a temple of Jupiter that must have stood here. The town first appears in a document of 1191, under the name Juvo, and the castle that dominates it dates from that same year.
Amelia, Todi and Orvieto all fought over it; it passed to the Anguillara, then to the Farnese, and in 1597 Matteo Farnese sold it to the brothers Ciriaco and Asdrubale Mattei. With the Mattei came the marquisate and, in 1643, the ducal title Urban VIII granted to Girolamo. The church of Santa Maria Assunta was built at their wish, in the eighteenth century. The 1,900 residents live on a plateau above the Tiber, inside the medieval walls.
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📅 Every year, on 24 June
Giove celebrates Saint John the Baptist on 24 June; the town is dominated by its most significant monument, the imposing castle built by the Mattei family in the 17th century atop a 1191 structure.
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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Outside Giove, but an easy day trip away.
