Orvieto Underground

The previous post was for st Patrick’s well. Clearly not for the underground tour which is something completely different and starts near the Duomo. Don’t confuse the two or else you will miss seeing a few of the 1200 underground caves that date back to 2^nd century BC.
My husband and I really wanted to see the tour and I found out online that there was a 6 pm tour. Online it failed to mention that it as only in Italian. Not a deal breaker for me, even though I don’t speak 2 words of Italian.
Low and behold the tour guide spoke English and thankfully did the entire tour in both English and Italian. There was so many interesting tid bits that it was a good thing that she spoke English for us. My husband and I were very impressed and we would recommend the tour for sure.
Even though it was dark outside, the caves are well lit.

It’s a deep well. You walk down a spiral stairway maybe 200 feet down. It takes about 5 minutes. At the bottom there is some water and a platform so you can look up. Then another stairway to walk up to the top. Which takes more like 10 minutes because it’s a lot of steps. The brochure they have outside suggests there are tunnels all under the city and I thought we would see some. Nope. You go down some stairs and then up some stairs. Was 6 Euro per person when I did it. I recommend you skip it.