Location: Orvieto
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Orvieto [orˈvjɛːto] is a city and comune in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The city rises dramatically above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone called Tufa.
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1. Museo Claudio Faina
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4.0 based on 157 reviews
The Museum "Claudio Faina" of Orvieto is one of the more important Italian archaeological collections. It was put together by the Counts Mauro and Eugenio Faina between the 1860s and 1880s. It includes a coin cabinet composed of more than three thousand coins, prehistoric and protohistoric finds, buccheri, Etruscan figured pottery, bronzes, jewelry. The Attic black-figure and red-figure pottery, attributed to some of the greatest ceramists active in Athens at the time, is exceptional. The ground floor houses the Museo Civico, which exhibits the antiques collected during the nineteenth century by the City of Orvieto such as the "Venus" of Cannicella, the cippus in the shape of the head of a warrior, and the sculptural decoration of the pediment of the Temple of Belvedere. The museum is located right opposite the Cathedral of Orvieto.
Reviewed By theprimaet
This ends my conceit of how dumb civilizations of the past are. It was a major surprise how advanced the Etruscans of 900 BC. I saw in their art and coinage they were every bit as intelligent as mankind today. With our three thousand more years of development in science and technology, they would have been our equals. Thanks for my epiphany.
2. Museo Archeologico Nazionale Di Orvieto
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4.0 based on 123 reviews
Reviewed By yns_10 - Sydney, Australia
There are some very interesting Etruscan artifacts on display and during my visit, very few people in the museum. I was able to watch the Corpus Domini parade from the balcony of the museum without anyone else there!
3. Museo Delle Maioliche Medievali e Rinascimentali Orvietane
4. Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
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4.0 based on 107 reviews
Reviewed By VictoriaL770 - Kansas City, United States
We brought friends to view the spectacular Duomo in Orvieto and noticed that for an additional euro we could also visit this small museum tucked right behind the cathedral. That is a great deal so down the hill to the underside of the cathederal we found the entrance...the ground floor has bits and pieces from the cathederal from renovations and brought in from the elements to protect them, but cross a small courtyard and go up a flight of stairs and you are met with an overflow of religious art in the former papal palace. Outside the Duomo over the door is a piece in metal and stone or wood? Of Mary and the child surrounded by angels covered by a canopy...it is not the original , because that is the masterpiece you see as you enter the papal palace. Enormous paintings of the life of Christ and so much more. It is easily the best bargain in Orvieto, a definite go see if time allows!
