Orvieto's cathedral is one of Italian Gothic's highest moments: Maitani's façade, gold and striped marble, prepares you for the San Brizio chapel, where Luca Signorelli painted a Last Judgement of bodies and demons that thunderstruck Michelangelo. All of it on a tuff crag that is itself a monument.
St Patrick's Well, dug in 1527 by Sangallo with a double helix of 248 steps for the mules, and the underground city of Etruscan caves double Orvieto in depth. Above ground, the white Classico in the wine bars and the medieval lanes: an hour from Rome, another world.
Near Orvieto
The closest destinations covered by our editors, with straight-line distance.
