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Entrance to Orvieto Underground

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Entrance to Orvieto Underground

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Entrance to Orvieto Underground

Name: Entrance to Orvieto Underground
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Location: Orvieto, Terni, Umbria, Italy

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1. Orvieto – Torre del Moro, Orvieto loop from Orvieto

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2. Moro Tower, Orvieto – Orvieto loop from Orvieto

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3. Orvieto Cathedral – Orvieto loop from Orvieto

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Nicolet

September 20, 2020

For lack of knowledge of the exact name, I only found this information later:
The Orvieto tufa graves are dry cavities created by human intervention and are located below the town of Orvieto in southwest Umbria in the province of Terni in Italy.
The tufa layer under the city was created around 300,000 years ago by eruptions in the Volsiner Mountains. The more than 1200 tufa graves themselves were created by the excavation activities of the residents over about 3000 years across the entire city. The excavations were only stopped at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The caves have been largely unused since around the 1950s and have only been scientifically processed since the 1970s. Previously, the grottos and tunnels were used to store food, wine and the production of goods as well as the water supply of the city.

During the public tours lasting about one to one and a half hours, only a very small part of the grottos and tunnels can be visited, e.g. B. an olive oil mill located in a grotto from the Middle Ages with millstones, the oil press, fireplace, the feed manger for the animals, the water pipes and cisterns.
Source and further information de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuffsteingrotten_von_Orvieto

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Nicolet

September 20, 2020

Is described on the Internet as an underground city with 1,200 caves, tunnels and wells, carved out of the rock 2.5 to 3 millennia ago.
You can only visit them with a guided tour (which can be booked at Piazza Duomo 23 for 7 € / person (as of September 2020). According to the tour, there are about 300 grottos, most of which are privately owned and up to 4 floors The grottoes are very impressive, but I had imagined the tour to be much longer and through many passages.
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Marco Contarelli ilMog_blog

August 14, 2021

Underground Orvieto has now become a must when visiting the city as much as its cathedral and the lace of San Patrizio! You will be able to see and understand how much commercial life and not only developed under the city of Orvieto.

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Pauli

December 3, 2022

At this point in the park on the southern slopes or on the southern rock faces is the closed access to the underground caves in the tuff under the old town of Orvieto. For the guided tours you have to register and buy tickets at the tourist office opposite the cathedral! The visit is definitely worth it!

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Ralph

April 11, 2023

A pleasant guided tour, along a comfortable path, through which you can get to know the underground of the city of Orvieto.

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