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The Paglia and Tiber rivers have spent eons washing away most of the volcanic layer of porous tufa that once covered the area around Orvieto. But they left a plug of it jutting some 315m (1,033 ft.) above the plain, and its sheer walls are so defensible humans have been scurrying about atop it for thousands of years. The Etruscans probably called the city they inherited from Bronze and Iron Age tribes here Velzna (some scholars render it Volsinii), a major player in the Etruscan confederation of 12 cities and perhaps its religious center.
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AttractionsCrocifisso del Tufo
Viale Crispi
Orvieto, Italy Distance: 0.6 mi. (from destination center) Description: This 4th-century-B.C. necropolis of houselike stone tombs lies about halfway around the north... Read More Duomo
Piazza del Duomo
Orvieto, Italy Distance: 0.6 mi. (from destination center) Description: Orvieto's most striking sight is, without a doubt, the facade of its Duomo. The... Read More Grotte della Rupe (Etruscan Orvieto Underground)
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