More Italy Holiday - Orvieto
20th January 2023
After a few days in Bologna we travelled south to Orvieto. This started as a one day filler really on our way to Tuscany but it turned out to be delightful.
The local countryside from the city wall.
After we had booked into our hotel we had a wander around the city which is quite small and easily covered in a few hours. We had been made aware that the following day, Sunday, there was to be a parade through the streets of the city and this would affect where they parked our car and the time we would have to leave before the streets were closed.
Piazza della Repubblica and the Chiesa di Sant'Andrea e Bartolomeo
We decided that, as the parade was due to be over by 2:30 and the drive to our hotel in Tuscany was about one hour, we would stay in the city to watch the parade. And we're glad we did, it was amazing.We had no idea that there was going to be a parade while we were there so it came as a really pleasant surprise.
The reason for the parade is for the population of the city to parade the icon, normally kept in the Duomo, around the streets.
Carrying the icon.
More images from Orvieto can be seen here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAb8u1
The local countryside from the city wall.
After we had booked into our hotel we had a wander around the city which is quite small and easily covered in a few hours. We had been made aware that the following day, Sunday, there was to be a parade through the streets of the city and this would affect where they parked our car and the time we would have to leave before the streets were closed.
Piazza della Repubblica and the Chiesa di Sant'Andrea e Bartolomeo
We decided that, as the parade was due to be over by 2:30 and the drive to our hotel in Tuscany was about one hour, we would stay in the city to watch the parade. And we're glad we did, it was amazing.We had no idea that there was going to be a parade while we were there so it came as a really pleasant surprise.
The reason for the parade is for the population of the city to parade the icon, normally kept in the Duomo, around the streets.
Carrying the icon.
More images from Orvieto can be seen here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAb8u1