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A private Orvieto day trip with real wine tasting at a genuine local winery.
A private tour for your group only, to Orvieto's Basilica, St. Patrick's Well, underground Etruscan caves, and a genuine winery lunch and wine tasting.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Orvieto's Basilica, the genuine St. Patrick's Well, underground caves, and a real winery lunch with wine tasting.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Rome.
Genuine winery lunch.
A real, genuine engineering marvel.
Just your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, to Orvieto's Basilica, St. Patrick's Well, underground Etruscan caves, and a genuine winery lunch and wine tasting. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Orvieto's Basilica, the genuine St. Patrick's Well, underground caves, and a real winery lunch with wine tasting.
Pope Clement VII had a very practical reason for commissioning Orvieto's most unusual monument. After fleeing to Orvieto following the 1527 Sack of Rome, he worried the town's water supply couldn't survive a prolonged siege, so he hired the Florentine architect-engineer Antonio da Sangallo the Younger to solve it. The result, built between 1527 and 1537, is St. Patrick's Well: a cylindrical shaft 53 meters deep, wrapped by two separate helical ramps in a double-helix design so that donkey teams carrying empty water jars down and full ones up never had to cross paths on the same stairway. There are 248 steps and 70 windows cut into the walls for light — a genuinely clever piece of 16th-century engineering, finished under Pope Paul III.
The Basilica itself, a few streets over, was already nearly 250 years old by the time the well was dug — construction began in 1290 to house the relic of the 1263 Eucharistic Miracle of Bolsena, and the project stretched across roughly three centuries, which is why its facade blends Romanesque groundwork with later Gothic detail.
Orvieto's hilltop position, carved from the same volcanic tufa as the well itself, also happens to be wine country: this is the heart of the Orvieto DOC, Umbria's best-known wine zone, where whites are blended from Grechetto and the locally called Procanico grape in volcanic soils that give the wine a distinct mineral edge. The included lunch and tasting here is a real, tangible way to taste that geology.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.
