Category:Saint Patrick's well (Orvieto)

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<nowiki>pozzo di San Patrizio; puits de Saint Patrick; Studnia św. Patryka w Orvieto; באר פטריציו הקדוש; Pozzo di S. Patrizio; Колодец Святого Патрика; Pozzo di S. Patrizio; Puñs Sant Padrig; 圣帕特里克井; Кладенец Сан Патрицио; Monumento di Orvieto; puits historique à Orvieto (Italie); water well; Gebäude in Italien; 位于意大利奥尔维耶托的古水利设施; waterput in Orvieto, Italië</nowiki>
Pozzo di S. Patrizio 
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Instance of
  • water well
  • real property
  • historical civil building museum
  • military museum building
  • museum for an artifact of industrial archaeology
  • museum of a public entity
LocationOrvieto, province of Terni, Umbria, Italy
Street address
  • Viale Sangallo, - Orvieto
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Area
Visitors per year
  • 122,344 (2020)
  • 194,315 (2018)
  • 175,810 (2021)
  • 250,000 (2022)
official website
Map42° 42′ 59.29″ N, 12° 06′ 41.65″ E
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Wikidata Q671850
VIAF ID: 242294852
OpenStreetMap way ID: 88500566
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Pozzo di San Patrizio, a well built on the orders of the pope. During the Sack of Rome in 1527 the Pope took refuge at Orvieto, and fearing that in the event of siege by Charles' troops the city's water might prove insufficient, he had this spectacular well constructed by the architect-engineer Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1527‑37) with double helical ramps for one-way traffic, so that mules laden with water-jars might pass down then up again unobstructed. Its inscription boasts QUOD NATURA MUNIMENTO INVIDERAT INDUSTRIA ADIECIT ("what nature stinted for provision, let application supply") Mules carried water up the spiral staircase around the well.

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