Last Minute The museums of Orvieto

The museums of Orvieto

Orvieto Underground   
The charm of Orvieto is spectacularly reflected in its subsoil, and for a city that shines into the light of the sun, there is another that lives in the darkness among burrows, with hidden rooms and paths dug into the rock. During 2500 years an endless network of underground galleries have created a shelter and a sure place in which to live and to flourish, also certainly that have remained practically unexplored up until recent times. Today it is finally possible to take a trip to discover the ancient Velzna and its inhabitants, penetrating, in a simple and sure way, into the deepest Orvieto, where the time loses sense, in a trip back to a natural and mysterious rich past.

Museum Claudio Faina
The Palazzo Faina hosts the Claudio Faina Archaeological Museum of Orvieto, a collection of first greatness in the national and international panorama, articulated in 19 rooms where are exposed the numerous pieces collected in the years by Mauro and Eugenio Faina. There are lots of finds, among which detach for importance the three amphorae with black figures of the room VIII, work of the attic craft artist Exekias. Other amphorae both black and red figures are exposed in the rooms VI - VIII, while at the opening of the run there's a rich series of over three thousand coins. The visit continues with the rooms devoted to the bronzes and to the typical Etruscan ceramic, the "bucchero". It's a typical ceramics used beginning from the VII century up to the V century B.C., obtained with a particular mix of chromatic uniforms and very shiny tonalities.  

Museum Emilio Greco   
In the rooms of the Palazzo Soliano has been prepared an exhibition inside which it is possible to admire a series of 32 sculptures in bronze and about sixty graphic works of the artist Emilio Greco, given as gift to the city of Orvieto after having carved the three bronze portals of the Duomo in the first years of 1960.