15 days out for “Orvieto”

On two wheels

Private e-bike day to Civita di Bagnoregio and Orvieto with wine tasting

A full private day out of Rome by train and e-bike: from the Alviano nature reserve in the Tiber valley the route climbs to Civita di Bagnoregio, the hilltop village reached onl…

Under the ground

Descend an Etruscan well and cave complex in Orvieto

Turn up, pay at the door, and climb down an Etruscan well and its caves.

€5 per person

Books on orvietobooking.com

On the trail

Orvieto Cathedral, the Signorelli chapel and the crypts beneath it

One ticket for the cathedral, the Emilio Greco museum and the underground rooms beneath the Duomo.

Under the ground

St Patrick's Well: two spiral staircases that never meet

A sixteenth-century well sunk into the tufa cliff, with two helical staircases built one above the other so that pack animals going down never crossed those coming up.

In the old stones

The cathedral of Orvieto

A Gothic cathedral at Orvieto, from the thirteenth century.

Free — nothing to pay

Just turn up

Under the ground

Go down into the caves under Orvieto

An hour under the city, in a cave that holds a steady 14 °C.

Booked by phone

Under the ground

Orvieto Underground: the caves under the town

A guided walk through part of the man-made caves dug into the tufa rock under Orvieto, with cisterns, quarries and dovecotes cut into the cliff.

Under the ground

Pozzo della Cava: nine caves under the medieval quarter

A self-guided route through nine linked caves under the medieval quarter of Orvieto, including an Etruscan well, a kiln for medieval pottery and pre-Roman finds left where they …

With your hands

Wine tasting in an Etruscan cave above Orvieto

A working winery at Bardano, on the hills facing Orvieto, in a farmstead that belonged to the Templars.

With your hands

Walk the vineyard where Orvieto wine has been made since 1212

A private, appointment-only tour of a hillside estate 25 minutes from Orvieto, where wine has been made since 1212.

With your hands

Cook Umbrian food in a winery kitchen, twelve people maximum

A hands-on Umbrian cooking class held at the Decugnano dei Barbi estate outside Orvieto, capped at twelve people so everyone actually cooks.

With your hands

Taste five Umbrian olive oils a hundred metres from Orvieto's Duomo

The same Bartolomei oils as at the Montecchio mill, tasted in the middle of Orvieto's old town between the Duomo and the Torre del Moro.

Under the ground

Four hundred square metres of Orvieto's underground, five euros, no booking

Beneath a house on Via della Pace in Orvieto lie more than 400 square metres of caves and tunnels on several levels, cut into the tufo across three thousand years: Etruscan grai…

With your hands

Wine, oil and happy hour tasting at Madonna delle Macchie

A 40-hectare farm at 350 metres between Orvieto and Civita di Bagnoregio, making wine and olive oil since 1913.

With your hands

A 1966 mill opens its oleoteca, but only if you book first

Three generations of the Cecci family have been pressing oil at Monterubiaglio, in the hills between Orvieto and the Tuscan border, since 1966.