Tourists who come to Orvieto by train or car from a distance see the city, amid the beautiful scenery of fields and vineyards, rises on a tufa rock, whose walls seem impervious belts, more 'to improve, as a fortress on the flat valley of the river Paglia.

Because of its position, the antiques' Etruscan, for the appearance of its medieval streets and especially for the famous cathedral, a jewel of Gothic architecture, Orvieto and 'one of the most' unique and interesting city in Italy.