Underground Orvieto – Etruscan ‘City Under A City’ With Labyrinth, Tunnels, Pyramidal Structures, Oil Mills And Water Supply

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – There is a vast network of neolithic tunnels crisscrossing several European countries, built millennia ago.

The underground tunneling system. The underground city of Orvieto, Italy – Image credit: Roberto Ferrari  – CC BY-SA 2.0

The old city of Orvieto, Italy, once a significant center of the Etruscan civilization, has much more. It has a fascinating underground complex of mysterious caves connected by tunnels that now reveal surprising archaeological discoveries.

Orvieto is located on an isolated tuff mountain, the vertical walls of which are partly natural, partly artificial. This mountain hides in its depths an underground city with a secret labyrinth of excavated caves, probably built in part by noble families who used these as secret passages in case they were attacked or the city was besieged.

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