POZZO SAN PATRIZIO
"POZZO SAN PATRIZIO"
Pozzo di San Patrizio –The structure of the well.
Planned by Sangallo il Giovane (1527 -37), is composed by a cylindrical room of 13 meters of diameter that goes down to the depth of 62 meters and around which are untied into spiral overlapped two ample staircases into snail of 248 steps each one (they never meet together), illuminated by 72 . The well, that reaches to touch the waters of the sources of S. Zeno, was built on the request of Clemente VII the to guarantee to Orvieto the provisionings of water in case of siege. The name of the well recalls the figure of the evangelist saint of Ireland, san Patrizio, that usually prayed into a deep cavern, in an islet of the island of Derg, to keep in contact with the spiritual universe. At the end of the path he meets the source of the life: the water.
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