Etappe 6 - donderdag 12 mei Vertrekpunt: Orvieto - Fiuggi Terme Afstand: 195 km

FROM ORVIETO TO FIUGGI

Soriano nel Cimino (Vt)
Surrounded by chestnut and hazel woods the medieval village develops around Castello Orsini, an impressive complex of ramparts and walls which date back to the twelfth century, surmounted by a tower. Until the Eighties it has been used as a prison and it is now used for social and cultural initiatives. Sightseers can visit the Collegiata di San Nicola, dating back to the late eighteenth-century, which hosts a beautiful triptych of the fifteenth-century, while the Church of S. Agostino, of the same period, displays a fourteenth-century table of the Sienese school, with the Madonna on the throne. Along the road which goes up to the Monte Cimino, of volcanic origin, visitors can see the “sasso Menicante”, an enormous stone which stands in equilibrium on the rock.

Civita Castellana (Vt)
This small town of the early Middle Ages hosts a Rocca dei Borgia, with a pentagonal plan and angular ramparts. The courtyard is surrounded by a portico frescoed with subjects witnessing the residential intended use of the complex. The Rocca hosts the Museo Archeologico dell’Agro Falisco which tells the story of this territory, located between Etruria and Umbria. Visitors can admire ancient clothes dating back to the tenth century b.C., “falische” ceramics, terracotta products. The 1210 Duomo has a beautiful outside portico and an eighteen-hundred inside with the original “cosmatesco” style marble flooring.

Genazzano (Rm)
Genazzano, located on a secluded hill has still pieces of the outside walls and the Castello dei Colonna, seat of the Arte Contemporanea museum (contemporary art), which hosts educational laboratories and temporary exhibitions. Sightseers should not miss the Santuario della Madonna del Buon Consiglio, which dates back to the thirteenth century and then restructured. The Sanctuary hosts a thirteenth-century canopy and a fresco of the Virgin, belonging to the same period. A convent, which nowadays hosts the Museo d’Arte Sacra (the museum of holy art) is annexed to the church.