Orvieto

On Tuesday, I went out to Orvieto, in Umbria, for the day. It’s a really cool walled town that sits up on a cliff of Tufo. The main attraction is the ridiculously awesome Cathedral, the 1200 caves that are under the entire town, and of course the wine. It was an easy 1 hour train ride from Roma and then a 5 minute trip up the cable car to the top of the cliff and the walled city. Intending on checking off all the tourist boxes, I did it all. Cruised all over the town, climbed the Torre del Moro (too many damn steps), visited the theater & cathedral, took a tour of the caves (dumbasses dug so much out the town started to sink and they had a massive land slide in the 70’s resulting in them needing to reinforce the ceilings of all 1200 caves with cement), and yes, surprisingly, did a wine tasting. Delicious white wine, that places ferments!

the front of the cathedral was just gorgeous. The remainder of it is white and black striped marble.

inside the Cathedral; its very impressive.

Corso Cavour with the Torre del Moro above. I climbed; it was painful.

reception hallway of Teatro Mancinelli

a learning studio

main theater of Teatro Mancinelli

the piano salon

Piazza della Repubblica with the flags of Orvieto's contradas

Chiesa di Sant'Andrea and its decagonal bell tower

Piazza della Repubblica from the top of the tower

the town from the top of the tower

the cathedral from the top of Torro del Moro

the clock of the Torre del Moro from inside the stairwell

little street of the sweets

it was a sweet street

Piazza Duomo

cool bell tower in Piazza Duomo

a castle built in 1000AD, now renovated into a hotel