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An interesting museum named after the driver, inventor and engineer Pietro Taruffi, a famous designer of vintage cars. Through the exhibition of much material related to his work for the most famous car manufacturers, it will be possible to follow the motoring...

The gullies, which give the valley its name, are ridges of white clay, carved deep into the ground by the area's abundant rainfall activity. An austere and moving panorama in its essentiality, which allows even the untrained eye to grasp the changes the terrain has...

The Governor of Bagnoregio, Cardinal Giovanni Girolamo Albani, ordered the construction of the solemn arch, based on a design by the architect Ippolito Scalza of Orvieto, and inaugurated it in 1589. A marble plaque, affixed in the last century, commemorates the...

The original church is said to have been built in the 5th century AD in the classical Romanesque style. Over the next thousand years, it underwent several renovations and rebuilding works until, in 1511, it was entirely rebuilt to the design of architect Nicola...

Cattedrale di san Nicola e san donato is located in Piazza Cavour, one of Bagnoregio's main squares. This imposing building assumed the title of Cathedral following the 1695 earthquake, replacing the Church of San Donato in the hamlet of Civita, from which it...

Porta Santa Maria Currently, the only access to Civita is through this gate, due to the collapse of all others in the devastating earthquake of 1695. Placed on either side of the apex of the arch, two lions each grasp a female head with their claws, symbolising the...

Belvedere Park is the starting point for the journey into the heart of the Pearl of the Calanchi, giving access to the bridge leading to Civita. From this point, the Dying City is only three hundred metres away, yet such is the emotional force of the spectacle before...

Through a rich and detailed exhibition, the geological evolution of the area is recounted, explaining its problems, illustrating stabilisation interventions and recounting historical landslides. From the sea, which more than 1 million years ago submerged everything,...

The fascinating structure, originally dedicated to St. Angelo, was acquired in the first half of the 17th century by the Venerable Company of St. Bonaventure, to whom it owes its current name, and then fell into a state of neglect. In 1856, on the initiative of Bishop...

The majestic Romanesque-Gothic building in Bagnoregio's Piazza S. Agostino is embellished with a soaring 18th century bell tower, and serves as a treasure trove of paintings. Valuable works attributed to Taddeo di Bartolo and Giovanni di Paolo are just waiting to be...

Part of the house where St. Bonaventure was born was converted into a church as early as the first half of the 16th century. It is worth making an effort of imagination and soul, to try to perceive the transcendent and spiritual reflection that characterised...

Civita, also known as the Dying City, was the birthplace of St. Bonaventure, an important theologian and the first biographer of St. Francis of Assisi. Founded by the Etruscans more than two millennia ago, it was the Romans who changed its name to Balneum Regis, from...