After checking out of our hotel we will head to the Borghese Gallery, home to works by Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Parmigianino, Caravaggio, Bernini and other art luminaries.
After time for lunch (at your own expense) and a stroll around the Villa Borghese Gardens, we will travel by private bus to the dramatically positioned hilltop town of Orvieto. The group dinner this evening will highlight Orvieto’s local cuisine.
Total drive time today: 2 hours 30.
Accommodation: Hotel Aquila Bianca (4-star), Orvieto. www.hotelaquilabianca.it/
Address: 13 Via Giuseppe Garibaldi.
Meals included: breakfast and dinner.
Gallery
Titian, Sacred and Profane Love, c.1514, oil on canvas, 1180 x 2790 mm, Rome: Galleria Borghese
Raphael, Entombment, 1507, oil on panel, 1790 x 1740 mm, Rome: Galleria Borghese
Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1622-1625, marble, 2430 mm high, Rome: Galleria Borghese
Orvieto located on a tufa crag, occupied since the Iron Age; Etruscan city since 7th C BC; destroyed by Romans 265 BC; rose again in the Middle Ages to a powerful Commune (Urbs Vetus); Pope Gregory X received Edward I of England here on his return from the Crusades; Guelf/Ghibelline rivalries in 14th C; Renaissance Popes Alexander VI and Clement VII took refuge here from revolts in Rome