If you want to visit Italy but are tired of the super-tourist locations, check out these lesser-known destinations. You'll ...

Orvieto is located almost smack-bang in the centre of Italy, in the region of Umbria. It sits alongside the Autostrada A-1 (the spinal cord of the country’s highway system connecting Milan and Naples) ...

That’s why Clement VII was able to take refuge in Orvieto (and build the well) — by then, the popes ruled Umbria, as they continued to do right up until the unification of Italy in the 19th ...

In the ecclesiastical histories of the Roman Catholic Church, the "miracle of Bolsena is treated with a certain reserve But in Orvieto, some 70 miles north of Rome, it is a matter of such ...

Jul. 3—Aiken-based organization Partners in Friendship is continuing its tradition of cultural exchange, bringing together students from Orvieto, Italy, and Aiken. Since 1996, Partners in ...

When they first were revealed, the frescoes in the San Brizio Chapel of the majestic cathedral in Orvieto, Italy, both awed visitors and shocked them. The realistic scenes (1499-1504), portraying ...

Perched on a cliff of red volcano rock, the Umbrian hilltop town of Orvieto is among Italy’s most enchanting. Toni DeBella, an Italian-American expat who's lucky to call it home, tells us why. With ...