With your handsOrte above and below: a hands-on restoration workshop
Ninety minutes in the museum of Orte learning the techniques of archaeological restoration and then doing the restorer's job on real material.
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In the old stonesOrte at its real position from Rome, with everywhere else we list behind it — so you can see how far out this one is.
Open it where the roads are
Takes you to Orte itself. The place is signposted from there — we point at the town because that is the position we hold, and we would rather say so than pretend to a pin we have not checked.
Getting there
The day stays yours: you leave when you want, stop where you want, and come back when the light goes.
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With your handsNinety minutes in the museum of Orte learning the techniques of archaeological restoration and then doing the restorer's job on real material.
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Under the groundThe tourist office of Orte runs guided descents into the tunnels under the old town: the Etruscan-Roman aqueduct, the medieval dovecote and the snow well, and on the third weeke…
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In the old stonesMegalithic walls above Arpino, and a corbelled pointed arch cut through them that has no equal anywhere else in the Mediterranean.
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In the old stonesPolygonal blocks fitted without mortar, standing in the middle of the old town, and a gate whose single lintel stone weighs about as much as a locomotive.
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In the old stonesA Carrara marble figure on the old rock of San Pietro, raised in 1964 to the women of this valley who were assaulted here at the end of the war.
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In the old stonesA Baroque cathedral at Albano Laziale, from the eighteenth century.
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See the dayChecked 2026-08-23 · it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porta_di_San_Cesareo
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