Orvieto Cathedral is a large 14th-century Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and situated in the town of Orvieto in Umbria, central Italy. Since 1986, the cathedral in Orvieto has been the episcopal seat of the former Diocese of Todi as well.
Façade of the cathedral
Coronation of the Virgin mosaic on the top gable of the cathedral
Rose window
Marble Pieta, Madonna Mourning the Crucified Jesus with St. Nicodemus
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
Facade of the Orvieto Cathedral.
The Pozzo di San Patrizio, a well built for the popes.
The site of Orvieto was once an Etruscan acropolis.