The second day in Orvieto was market day, and the area was filled with vendors of clothing, material and all sorts of merchandise.

Photo by Mike and Bernice Lincicum.

This is a meat market set up in a van so the vendors can easily move to the next market day in another town.

Photo by Lori Magaro.

This a a flower vendor.

Photo by Lori Magaro.

Booths with material and tablecloths were attractive to some.

After lunch the bus took us to the town of Bagnoregio and from there we walked to the bridge that would take us to Civita di Bagnoregio. Civita's history goes back to Etruscan and ancient Roman times.

We are getting closer to the bridge.

We are on the bridge.

We are getting close to the steep part of the bridge.

We are almost at the top.

At a cave which had been used as an olive mill, our hosts there were preparing bruschetta for us.

Photo by Allan Colby.

They then served us this wonderful bruschetta with wine or water. This was the treat that Nina had promised us if we made it to the top!

Photo by Allan Colby.

Our host here demonstrates how his father used to use a donkey to turn this wheel to crush the olives to make olive oil.

Photo by Don and Arlene Hover.

There were some beautiful nooks and corners to look at.

Since this area had also been settled by the Etruscans, we were able to see an Etruscan cave here, with niches for the interment of ashes of the deceased.

Of course we had to walk down the bridge and then up to Bagnoregio. After we had taken a hard-earned rest at our hotel in Orvieto, Nina led us to a restaurant. Before dinner, the owner led us down some stairs to Etruscan caves and wells dug out of the soft tufa. Then we went back up to an excellent dinner of 4 or 5 antipasti, 2 pastas and a second plate of wild boar and veal, and a plate with 4 different desserts.

The next day we were going to leave Umbria to visit the Etruscan Museum in Chianciano on our way to Pienza for lunch and then to our agritourismo.