Orvieto’s cathedral gets my vote for Italy’s liveliest facade. This colourful, prickly Gothic exterior, divided by four pillars, has been compared to a medieval altarpiece — a gleaming mass ...

Even now, you’ll still see pigeon (piccione) dishes featured on many Orvieto menus. St. Patrick’s Well — 175 feet deep, 45 feet wide, and 248 steps down — impresses modern engineers to ...

When they first were revealed, the frescoes in the San Brizio Chapel of the majestic cathedral in Orvieto, Italy, both awed visitors and shocked them. The realistic scenes (1499-1504), portraying ...