Museum of Volcanology and Park - San Venanzo
The Museo Vulcanologico is located in the historical city center of San Venanzo, a suggestive burgh in-between the territory of the middle course of the Tiber and Orvieto. The building housing the Museum is an early 19th century edifice close to Villa Faina.
The Museum of Volcanology and its Park deserve a visit both for the particularity of their collections and for the environment in which the park stands. Among the most important finds that are kept and displayed in part of the itinerary, it is worth mentioning: a very rare kind of rock, called "Venanzite"—this rock comes from the solidification of lava—a dinosaur egg, coming from China, and the cranium of the Elephas Meridionalis—found in the area nearby.
In the Park visitors can take a 2-kilometer tour, along which the history of the geological volcanoes of the area is recounted and, among other things, they can admire what remains of a quarry—evidence of the ancient extraction activities in the area—where the stones for producing millstone were extracted.
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