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JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
On the road from Siena to Rome, half-way between Ficulle and Viterbo, / is the town of Orvieto. Travellers often pass it in the night-time. / Few stop there, for the place is old and dirty and its inns are / indifferent. But none who see it even from a distance can fail to be / struck with its imposing aspect, as it rises from the level plain upon / its mass of rock among the Apennines.