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Monument · Orvieto, Italy

Pozzo di San Patrizio

A 54-metre well with two spiral staircases that never meet, so mules could descend and climb without passing.

Orvieto, ItalyCorno Grande — 2,912 mMonte Cinto — 2,706 mMonte Viglio — 2,156 mCorte, FranceCivita di Bagnoregio, ItalyRome, ItalyArezzo, ItalySiena, ItalyAssisi, ItalyVatican City, Vatican CityOrvietoCorno Grande 2,912 mMonte Cinto 2,706 mMonte Viglio 2,156 mAPPENNINICivita di BagnoregioRomeArezzoSienaAssisi
Pozzo di San Patrizio is in Orvieto, and this is Orvieto — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 590 km across and 210 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 45 minutes · Open year-round · 42.719°N, 12.121°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

Frecciarossa and Italo make Milan–Rome three hours and compete on price. All of Italy →

Up a level

Orvieto · Rome & Lazio · Italy

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Those are the three fields that go stale fastest and the three you are most damaged by being wrong about, so this site does not carry them at all rather than carrying an unverified version. Check the operator or the municipality on the day. The estimate of how long to give it, and the season, are editorial judgements and are usually stable.

Other places in Orvieto

Orvieto Cathedral

A striped facade of mosaic and marble, with Signorelli's apocalypse frescoes in the chapel inside.

Church

The record

What this atlas holds about Pozzo di San Patrizio, and nothing it does not.

Kind
Monument
Give it
45 minutes
Season
Open year-round
Where
42.719°N, 12.121°E
In
Orvieto