Few footsteps from the
lake of Bolsena,
on the summit of the highland of the
Alfina, rises
Castel Giorgio,
in a territory rich in oaks and chestnut trees, in the beautiful wooded
vegetation that has constituted important part of the income of numerous local
families up to last century. As big part of the communes of the territory of
Orvieto,
also in
Castel Giorgio have been recovered Etruscan precious finds that
puts the origin of the installation around the VI century B.C. The development
of the inhabited centre only had however been in a recent epoch, and precisely
around the XV century, when
Giorgio della Rovere, bishop of Orvieto,
chose these places as destination of vacation. It rose so a monumental castle,
the
Palazzo Vescovile, around which a certain number of residences was
set. A further impulse to the development came in the XX century from the
construction of the military airport, to which is owed the construction of
various sporting structures and particularly the
National Technical Centre
of the American football.
The main tourist destination of Castel
Giorgio remains however the mighty Palazzo Vescovile, a noble and austere
building, from the simple and essential lines.
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