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.
Orvieto Cathedral · pozzo di San Patrizio · Museo Faina and 2 more
Orvieto
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Next up: Feast of Saint Joseph, Friday 19 March
Nearest airport: Perugia San Francesco, 53 km away
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📅 Every year, on 19 March
Orvieto's patron is celebrated on 19 March. The two occasions that made the city famous are others: Corpus Christi, instituted here in 1264, and the Palombella at Pentecost.
Orvieto Cathedral Three centuries of building, a gold mosaic front, and Signorelli's Last Judgment inside. 
pozzo di San Patrizio The fleeing pope's well: fifty-four metres and two spiral stairs that never meet. 
Museo Faina The Etruscan collection of a family of diggers, with windows onto the cathedral. 
necropoli del Crocifisso del Tufo The Etruscan city of the dead below Orvieto, with names cut over the doors. 
chiesa di San Domenico Orvieto's Dominican church, cut in half, with Arnolfo's cardinal's tomb. 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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