In 1828 the English painter JMW Turner was travelling across Italy on his way to Rome when he passed through Orvieto, a city perched on the flat summit of a mighty volcanic mass that rises from the Umbrian earth. That surreal sight must have stayed with Turner, because when the artist reached his destination he completed the painting View of Orvieto, Painted in Rome.
Throughout history, ancient civilisations as early as the Etruscans have settled in Orvieto,
