Visit Orvieto contains information about travel to Orvieto, Umbria and Tuscany. The best restaurants, shops, sites to see all rated by the people who live in the town.

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Orvieto is a medieval city in southwestern Umbria. Orvieto is situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The site of the city is among the most dramatic in Europe,
rising above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone. The majestic Duomo with in its majesty will leave you speechless. As
you stroll through this architectual marvel, you will find yourself feeling as if you are walking in a medieval novel. Papal residence: Orvieto has long been in papal territory. Pope
Boniface VIII was from Orvieto and donated statues of himself at the main city gates, which earned him some criticism from his many enemies. Etruscan ruins: Orvieto is also home
to Etruscan ruins and the remnants of a wall that enclosed the city more than 2000 years ago. At the foot of the butte, surrounded by peach and apple trees and a vineyard, the
Etruscan necropolis of Crocefisso di Tufo counts a hundred or so chamber tombs laid along a rectangular street grid.