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OrvietoOrvieto is a town in southwestern Umbria. In Etruscan times it was known as Velzna. In 264 BC, it was conquered by the Romans, who called it Volsinii.Orvieto is noted for its Romanesque-Gothic cathedral, designed by Arnolfo di Cambio, with construction beginning in 1290. Inside the cathedral is Luca Signorelli's masterpiece, his fresco of the Last Judgment (1499). 
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