This morning we left Firenze and rode the train for a couple hours to Orvieto. After we got settled and found lunch, we decided to explore.
We headed first over to Pozzo di San Patrizio, St--Patrick's Well. The well is 175 feet deep and 45 feet wide. There are two spiral stairways so that traffic only flows one way. Makes sense for back in the day when people were using donkeys to haul water up. The well was started in 1527 and was finished about 10 years later. There are a total of 496 steps.
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| The outside of the well |
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| Looking down |
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| Looking up from the bottom |
After we made climbed back out of the well, we headed over to the duomo. Construction on this duomo began in 1290 and took about 300 years to complete. It has two chapels in it covered in beautiful frescos.
While we were inside the duomo museum, we thought we heard rumbling. When we got back outside, it was thundering and lightening! Again! That's two thunder and lightening storms this week. There were also a ton of swallows flying around the duomo and some popping we think might have been metal on the duomo conducting electricity in the air. We are hoping it clears up for tomorrow, we are going to be heading to Civita di Bagnoregio in the morning.
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| Dinner |
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