Pozzo di San Patrizio
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.- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: water well
- Also known as: “Il Pozzo di san Patrizio” and “Pozzo di S. Patrizio”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Belvedere Temple and Orvieto Cathedral.
Orvieto Cathedral
Church
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. Orvieto Cathedral is situated 1 km southwest of Pozzo di San Patrizio.
Orvieto railway station
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orvieto Scalo and Ciconia.
Canale Vecchio
Hamlet
Canale Vecchio is a hamlet, which is situated 3½ km south of Pozzo di San Patrizio.
Pozzo di San Patrizio
- Categories: water well, historical civil building museum, military museum building, museum for an artifact of industrial archaeology, museum of a public entity, building, tourism, historic site, and historic building
- Location: Orvieto, Province of Terni, Umbria, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.72254° or 42° 43′ 21″ north
Longitude
12.12045° or 12° 7′ 14″ east
Elevation
259 metres (850 feet)
Inception
1537
Open location code
8FJJP4FC+25
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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OpenStreetMap feature
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OpenStreetMap feature
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OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Spanish—“Pozzo di San Patrizio” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Pozzo di San Patrizio”
- Breton: “Puñs Sant Padrig”
- Bulgarian: “Кладенец Сан Патрицио”
- Chinese: “圣帕特里克井”
- Croatian: “Bunar svetog Patrika”
- Dutch: “Pozzo di S. Patrizio”
- French: “Puits de saint Patrice”
- French: “puits de Saint Patrick”
- Hebrew: “באר פטריציו הקדוש”
- Italian: “pozzo di San Patrizio”
- Italian: “Pozzo di San Patrizio”
- Polish: “Studnia św. Patryka w Orvieto”
- Russian: “Колодец святого Патрика”
- Russian: “Колодец Святого Патрика”
- Spanish: “Pozo de San Patricio”
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