Orvieto is one of the most striking, memorable, and enjoyable hill towns in central Italy. Less than 90 minutes from Rome, Orvieto sits majestically high above the valley floor atop a big chunk of ...

Italy’s beauty isn’t just in Rome’s ruins or Venice’s canals, it’s hidden in quiet cobblestone alleys, hilltop villages, and ...

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 the ...

The Eucharistic miracle in Orvieto played a key role in launching the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. At right, a fresco from the Chapel of the Miracle in Orvieto Cathedral depicts the 13th-century ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Major Richard Heseltine gestured with his walking stick at a cobbled street leading off the main square. "That's where we came in," he ...

In the ecclesiastical histories of the Roman Catholic Church, the “miracle of Bolsena is treated with a certain reserve But in Orvieto, some 70 miles north of Rome, it is a matter of such vital ...

Orvieto is one of the most striking, memorable, and enjoyable hill towns in central Italy. About 90 minutes from Rome, Orvieto sits majestically high above the valley floor atop a big chunk of tufo ...

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