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Orvieto Duomo: Antichrist (Wikipedia)

Coming from Florence to Rome we passed near, but below Orvieto, which sits on a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_plug>volcanic plug. We wished that we could have stopped there and explored on the day but we had too much baggage. Through the miracle of the Internet we got trains tickets there. You might wonder at this being mentioned now, but until this point in Italy we always went to the station to buy tickets; the autmatic machines are fast and sure: one walks away with a ticket in hand. This time we had learned the system well enough and had plenty of time to print our tickets in advance.

We managed to do a bit of reading before hand, both in Wikipedia and two different editions of the Michelin Green guide. So we were all primed to see Orvieto Cathedral, the Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo,