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Discovery Was Made Accidentally
Discovered accidentally in the 1970s¨, the underground city of Orvieto contributed to the region with a great historical and archaeological legacy. It all started when a vast landslide hit the Umbrian town of Orvieto in the 70s, and a certan mysterious legend.

People in the area began to talk about an old urban legend mentioning an empty Orvieto located' below.' Researchers decided to explore the underground of the city. Thus, under its surface, they found an unknown Orvieto, with a labyrinth divided into more than 1200 caves, tunnels, wells, cisterns for rainwater conservation, and mysterious openings and overhanging walls and windows with irregular forms.

It was an extraordinary discovery worth further investigation to shed more light on this still mysterious civilization of the Etruscans.

The excavations of the underground city of Orvieto revealed many historical structures like a medieval oil mill with millstones, pipelines, hearth, press, feeders for animals, water pipelines, and containers used for fruit pomace. Cisterns dated to the 5th century BC and a series of other cisterns from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance times were found too.

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