Orvieto
Orvieto is a city in Umbria. Designed to be impregnable, it was founded by the Etruscans on the top of a steep hill made of tufa, a volcanic ash stone.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Orvieto Cathedral and Pozzo di San Patrizio.
Orvieto Cathedral
Church
Photo: Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Orvieto Cathedral is a large 14th-century Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and situated in the town of Orvieto in Umbria, central Italy.
Pozzo di San Patrizio
Photo: Antichitera, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Pozzo di San Patrizio is a historic well in Orvieto, Umbria, central Italy. The city is high on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff that was fortified with defensive walls.
Fanum Voltumnae
Archaeological site
Fanum Voltumnae was the chief religious center of the Etruscan civilization. The term fanum denotes a sacred space, not necessarily a single temple. Ancient sources describe it as the meeting place of the Etruscan League, a federation of twelve city-states known as lucumonies.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Porano and Ciconia.
Porano
Village
Photo: LigaDue, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Porano is a comune in the Province of Terni in the Italian region Umbria, located about 50 km southwest of Perugia and about 45 km northwest of Terni. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 1,867 and an area of 13.5 km2. Porano is situated 4½ km south of Orvieto.
Orvieto
- Type: Locality with 20,100 residents
- Also known as: “055023”
- Location: Province of Terni, Umbria, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
42.7195° or 42° 43′ 10″ northLongitude
12.1116° or 12° 6′ 42″ eastPopulation
20,100Elevation
317 metres (1,040 feet)Open location code
8FJJP496+RJGeoNames ID
6539748
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Orvieto” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أورفييتو”
- Bulgarian: “Орвието”
- Chinese: “奥尔维耶托”
- Hebrew: “אורבייטו”
- Italian: “Comune di Orvieto”
- Italian: “Orvieto”
- Japanese: “オルヴィエート”
- Kazakh: “Орвието”
- Korean: “오르비에토”
- Latin: “Urbs Vetus”
- Lithuanian: “Orvjetas”
- Russian: “Орвието”
- Serbian: “Орвијето”
- Sicilian: “Orvietu”
- Ukrainian: “Орв’єто”
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