Two weeks in Umbria
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Visit toTodi.
This is S. Fortunato Church:
Visit to Orvieto, which stands on a hill and hides in it's dephts hundreds of cellars, eighty pits and many caverns digged in the volcanic rocks, since the ages of the
Etruscans, 3000 years ago:
The town is naturally protected since it was built on top of a hill; here's a
view of an abbey in the surroundings, taken from the town:
We don't miss one of the most beautiful cathedrals in the world:
The town, known for its wines, has cellars under each house, digged centuries
ago; some of them are too wet to be
still used; see the mushrooms growing on a wooden cask for decades: