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 |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Orvieto Cathedral and Pozzo di San Patrizio.
Orvieto Cathedral
Church
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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
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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 Ciconia and Orvieto Scalo.
Porano
Village
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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 4 km south of Orvieto.
Orvieto
- Categories: commune of Italy and locality
- Location: Province of Terni, Umbria, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
42.7186° or 42° 43′ 7″ northLongitude
12.1088° or 12° 6′ 32″ eastPopulation
4,960Elevation
325 metres (1,066 feet)United Nations Location Code
IT ORVOpen location code
8FJJP495+CGOpenStreetMap ID
node 1419995900OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Orvieto” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أورفييتو”
- Armenian: “Օրվեիտո”
- Armenian: “Օրվիետո”
- Basque: “Orvieto”
- Belarusian: “Арвіета”
- Breton: “Orvieto”
- Bulgarian: “Орвието”
- Catalan: “Orvieto”
- Cebuano: “Orvieto”
- Central Kurdish: “ئۆرڤیێتۆ”
- Chechen: “Орвието”
- Chinese: “Orvieto”
- Chinese: “奥尔维耶托”
- Chinese: “奧爾維耶托”
- Croatian: “Orvieto”
- Czech: “Orvieto”
- Danish: “Orvieto”
- Dimli (individual language): “Orvieto”
- Dutch: “Orvieto”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اورفييتو”
- Esperanto: “Orvieto”
- Estonian: “Orvieto”
- Finnish: “Orvieto”
- French: “Orvieto”
- French: “Urviventus”
- German: “Orvieto”
- Greek: “Ορβιέτο”
- Hebrew: “אורבייטו”
- Hindi: “ओर्भिएटो”
- Hungarian: “Orvieto”
- Icelandic: “Orvieto”
- Indonesian: “Orvieto”
- Interlingua: “Orvieto”
- Irish: “Orvieto”
- Italian: “Orvieto”
- Japanese: “オルヴィエート”
- Kannada: “ಒರ್ವ್ಯೇಟೊ”
- Kazakh: “Орвието”
- Korean: “오르비에토”
- Kurdish: “Orvieto”
- Ladin: “Orvieto”
- Latin: “Urbs Vetus”
- Latvian: “Orvieto”
- Latvian: “Orvjeto”
- Lithuanian: “Orvjetas”
- Lombard: “Orvieto”
- Macedonian: “Орвјето”
- Maltese: “Orvieto”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Orvieto”
- Neapolitan: “Orvieto”
- Nepali: “ओर्भिएटो”
- Newari: “ओर्भिएटो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Orvieto”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Orvieto”
- Norwegian: “Orvieto”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Orvieto”
- Persian: “ارویهتو”
- Piemontese: “Orvieto”
- Polish: “Orvieto”
- Portuguese: “Orvieto”
- Romanian: “Orvieto”
- Russian: “Орвието”
- Sardinian: “Orvieto”
- Scots: “Orvieto”
- Serbian: “Орвијето”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Orvieto”
- Sicilian: “Orvietu”
- Slovenian: “Orvieto”
- South Azerbaijani: “ارویهتو”
- Spanish: “Orvieto”
- Swahili: “Orvieto”
- Swedish: “Orvieto”
- Swiss German: “Orvieto”
- Tagalog: “Orvieto”
- Tamil: “ஒர்வியோடொ”
- Tatar: “Орвието”
- Tosk Albanian: “Orvieto”
- Turkish: “Orvieto”
- Ukrainian: “Орв’єто”
- Urdu: “ارویتو”
- Uzbek: “Orvieto”
- Venetian: “Orvieto”
- Vietnamese: “Orvieto”
- Volapük: “Orvieto”
- Waray (Philippines): “Orvieto”
- Welsh: “Orvieto”
- Western Frisian: “Orvieto”
- Wu Chinese: “奥尔维耶托”
- “Orvieto”
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