Photo spot in Orvieto
Torre del Moro
A plain medieval clock tower in the middle of town with a small open platform looking straight across the roofs to the Duomo.
About Torre del Moro
Get directionsThe Torre del Moro stands at the crossroads in the middle of Orvieto and is the only place in town that gives height. Forty-seven metres of stone with a lift for the lower half and stairs for the rest, and a small railed platform at the top.
What you get is the view nobody expects from ground level: a field of terracotta roofs with the striped bulk of the Duomo standing out of them on one side and, on every other side, the edge of the rock and then the valley.
Because the platform faces every direction, the light works whenever you are there — the Duomo side is best in the afternoon, the valley sides at sunrise and sunset. The space is small, though, so a group of more than three is a squeeze.
It is ticketed and closes in the late afternoon, earlier from November to February. Check the day's closing time, because sunset is often after the tower shuts; when it is, the same view goes to the far end of Corso Cavour instead.
Best time to shoot
Mid-afternoon for the Duomo side; check the closing time before planning sunset
Tips
The platform is barely three metres across, so it holds one or two people at a time, and the roofs become the subject rather than the background.
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Other spots in Orvieto
The Duomo façade
A striped Gothic front covered in gold mosaic and carved marble, facing west across a square wide enough to take it all in.
Pozzo di San Patrizio
A sixteenth-century well shaft sunk 54 metres into the rock, with two spiral ramps winding down that never meet.
The tufa cliff from Crocifisso del Tufo
The valley road under the northern rampart, where the whole town stands on a vertical wall of volcanic rock.
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