Orvieto

A famous fake cure-all is named for the same Umbrian town.

Orvietan was hawked across Europe as a universal antidote. It kept the name of the town its first vendor came from.

The wine is named for a town on a tufa outcrop.

Orvieto's cellars are cut into the rock the town stands on. The wine has carried its name since the Middle Ages.

Collectors named a whole medieval pottery style after one Umbrian hill town.

Large quantities of these green and brown jugs came out of disused wells and cisterns in Orvieto in the nineteenth century, and the town's name became the trade label for the type. Similar archaic maiolica was made across central Italy, so the name records where the pots were dug up more reliably than where each was thrown.

One of a set of obsolete rock names coined for the potassium rich volcanoes north of Rome, each named after its own town.

Orvietite belongs to the local terminology used for the Roman volcanic province, where Henry Stephens Washington and others attached place names to each variant of leucite bearing lava. Orvieto sits on a butte of tuff from the Vulsini volcanic district in Umbria. The term has fallen out of international use in favor of chemical classification.