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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Antichitera, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- 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.
Belvedere Temple
Archaeological site
Photo: Fantasy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Belvedere Temple is an archaeological site.
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. Orvieto Cathedral is situated 1 km southwest of Pozzo di San Patrizio.
Orvieto railway station
Railway station
Photo: Tr6637, Public domain.
Orvieto railway station is a station in Orvieto, Umbria, Italy. It is located on the Florence–Rome railway. Its buildings and infrastructure is managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, which classified it in 2008 in the silver category. Orvieto railway station is situated 520 metres east of Pozzo di San Patrizio.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Orvieto Scalo 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 5 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
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Latitude
42.72254° or 42° 43′ 21″ northLongitude
12.12045° or 12° 7′ 14″ eastElevation
259 metres (850 feet)Inception
1537Open location code
8FJJP4FC+25OpenStreetMap ID
way 88500566OpenStreetMap feature
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historic=buildingOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=water_wellOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Spanish—“Pozzo di San Patrizio” goes by many names.
- 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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