Full Day Tour Civita di Bagnoregio and Orvieto From Civitavecchia Port – Private Shore Excursion

Reserve your tour, shore excursion, from Civitavecchia port to Civita di Bagnoregio and Orvieto (9h tour).

This interesting tour will take you to discover 2 spectacular Etruscan towns and delights in the region of Umbria and Lazio.

The departure will be from the Civitavecchia cruise port, right where your cruise ship will be docked, our vehicles and our drivers all have permission to access the port and wait for their customers directly under the ship.

The first stop will be Civita di Bagnoregio located on the border between the Lazio region and the Umbria region.
Civita di Bagnoregio nicknamed “the dying city” is considered one of the most beautiful villages in Italy and every year it is visited by many people coming from all over the world to admire its timeless appearance and the magical atmosphere that can be feel walking through its narrow lane.
Perched on a hill, threatened by landslides and soil erosion, to reach it you have to cross a 200 meter long bridge that from the nearest hill leads to the gateway to the historic center. Civita di Bagnoregio counts only 11 residents due to the condition of structural precariousness that has emptied the country.The present appearance of the village dates back to the late Middle Ages and has remained almost intact since then, giving this place the fascinating aura of a place where time has stopped.

The tour continues with a visit to the city of Orvieto, which is about 40 minutes from Civita di Bagnoregio. Orvieto is a unique city, where every stone, every place breathes in history, a true open-air museum that offers visitors a breathtaking landscape.With a very suggestive definition, Orvieto has been defined as “the high and strange city”.A small treasure chest of art, it is famous throughout the world especially for the Duomo, a beauty of European Gothic architecture and the Pozzo di San Patrizio, a masterpiece of hydraulic engineering. Small, neat, welcoming, Orvieto is a must-see during a tour in Umbria, the subterranean city of Orvieto is also fascinating, for 2,500 years the residents of Orvieto have dug into the tufa cliff on which the city is built by building another, underground and hidden. Also to taste the excellent gastronomy.