URTONA. [Anauzzo.] Olt VIE'TO, the chief town of the Delegazione of Orvieto, and the residence of a cardinal bishop, in the Papal States, ia built ou a steep bill, which rises above the river Paglia, an affluent of the Tibor, about 16 miles N.E. from Bolsena, and has b000 inhabitants. It is chiefly remarkable for its handsome gothic cathedral, begun about the end of the 13th century, and finished towards the middle of the 14th century. This church was built to commemorate the miracle of the Bleeding Host mentioned in the article Bteamee, and of which it contains memorials in the magnificent silver Reliquary in the chapel of the Santissimo Corporals. The finale, on: of the finest in Italy, is orna mented with sculptures and mosaics. The interior contains a very large collection of the sculptures of the 16th century, and is enriched by many beautiful *wine and other works of art, including the History of Antichrist, the Last Judgment, Hell and Heaven of Luca hignorelli, which wore studied, admired, and imitated by Michel Angelo and Itaffaelle. The other remarkable buildings of Orvieto are
the town-house and the Jesuits' college, and St. Patrick's well (Pozzo dl San l'atrizio), excavated In the tufa rock an which the town is built. The country around Orvieto is fertile, and produces a delicate white wine, which is in great repute at Rome. Orvieto is evidently of Etruscan origin ; the city herbarium, mentioned by Pliny, ia said to have occupied the site, but nothing certain is known of its history. Etruscan remains exist here. The city has given title to a bishop slum A.D. 500. It was called Urbs Veliu in the time of the bards. The province of Orvieto contains 300 square miles, with 26,450 II:that/Rants in 1850.
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