Tours of Underground Orvieto
Another Orvieto can be visited complete with an endless succession of tunnels, stairs, unexpected passageways and rooms that bear witness to the creation over the centuries of this "citta sotterranea".
Speleotecnica has a desk in the APT tourist office on the Piazza Duomo, which is the departure point of the tours.
The tour leaves from the tourist information office on Piazza Duomo, 24 (opposite the cathedral)
From March 1st to January 31st : every day at 11,00am, 12:15pm, 4pm and 5:15pm (during the holiday seasons every 15 minutes). In February: only on Saturday and Sunday with the same timetable. Closed on December 25.
In Via della Cava an underground itinerary can be followed including the 2500-year-old Pozzo della Cava in use much before the Pozzo di San Patrizio, then the most ancient ceramic furnace in the world, Etruscan tombs and an Etruscan water tank to collect rainwater, a medieval cellar where the famous Orvieto wine (the wine of "popes and kings") was kept. And leaving the city, an unforgettable stop will be at the "Town of the Dead", the Etruscan cemetery on the road from Orvieto down to the railway station, where sepulchres are built in blocks of tuff rock almost like homes along the ancient streets of the cemetery.
Underground Orvieto
Piazza Duomo
05018 Orvieto (TR)
Umbria
Italy
tel: +39-0763-344891 or +39-339-7332764
fax: +39-0763-391121
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