Live Webcams in Orvieto

Orvieto, in Umbria, sits on a table of volcanic rock above the plain between Rome and Florence, and the live webcams in Orvieto show the town that everyone climbs up to see: the cathedral square with its Gothic façade of mosaics and spires, the lanes of tuff-coloured houses around it, and the edge of the cliff where the town simply stops. Orvieto keeps Central European Time, UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer, so a morning in New York is already afternoon on the piazza, and the light on the cathedral is at its best in the last two hours of the day. The cathedral took some 300 years to finish, from 1290 into the 16th century. The town's name is the old Urbs Vetus, the old city, and in Italian it is still simply Orvieto.