Orvieto Scenes, 2019

We left Rome via the western ring road, encountering little traffic and drove north, through familiar sites, like the Etruscan tombs at Sutri, making our way to long-time hill-town favorite, Orvieto. We spent a pleasant and memorable afternoon and evening in the town, the night in the large sosta below. Previous posts on Orvieto are listed at http://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2017/11/orvieto-2017.html. I'm sure the pix here and in the succeeding posts will contain some duplicates. Orvieto is one of the more photogenic places in Italy, if not Europe, and it's hard to resist.

Orvieto, from a nearby overlook

Big mountains in the distance to the east, still snow-covered

Looking across the valley to the cathedral

And, thanks to the funiculare and the bus, there we are,
before the best gothic/zebra cathedral there is

Interior; 2 more posts to come about our cathedral experience that day

Now walking the upper city, to the north end the little chiesa San Giovenale,
where were were thwarted in 2018; yet another Orvieto post

Note boar's head

There's hardly a block without a bench or some other interesting seating arrangement

At this point, in the Medieval section, fit only for Smart
cars or Fiat 500s, there's a helpful signpost for the freeway
and Rome

Rooftop view

I know I've posted this before, probably more than once; just an apartment building,
but beautiful and so, um, Italian

Restaurant of the cave, down there, carved into the rock

Looking back to the hillside overlook

After two hours at the little chiesa, we walked all the way
back to the cathedral, and then to the funiculare to the sosta;
so Italian