The photo shows reliefs from the facade of the Orvieto Cathedral, located in the Umbria region of Italy.. Orvieto has been built on a tuff stone formed after thousand- year-old volcanic activities. Even from distance, its spectacular Duomo sticks out on the city profile, once you are in front of it, the grandiosity of its beauty will leave you breathless: with the low reliefs, the statues, the mosaics and the central rose window, Orvieto Dom deserves to be considered one of the masterpiece of Gotic architecture all over the world. Orvieto Cathedral (Italian: Duomo di Orvieto Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta) is a large 14th- century Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and situated in the town of Orvieto in Umbria, central Italy. Since 1986, the cathedral in Orvieto has been the episcopal seat of the former Diocese of Todi.
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