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Orvieto
thumb|250px|Facade of the Orvieto Cathedral
thumb|right|250px|The Pozzo di San Patrizio, a well built for the popes
thumb|right|250px|The site of Orvieto was once an Etruscan acropolis.
Orvieto () is a city and comune in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy, situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The city rises dramatically above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone.

Orvieto DOC
wine
Orvieto and the popes
Orvieto, Italy – used from 1262 to 1297
Necropoli Etrusca del Crocifisso del Tufo
etruscan necropolis