IIS Majorana-Maitani Orvieto is a high school in the heart of Italy. Its 900 students are aged 14-19 and they are divided in different study courses: Liceo Scientifico / delle Science Applicate (Scientific Lyceum and Applied Sciences Lyceum), with a focus on Science, Maths and Physics such other subjects as Latin, Italian, History and Geography, Phylosophy, Art, PE, Liceo Linguistico (Languages Lyceum), with a focus on Foreign Languages and a Technical High School with several different subjects, some of which are Economics, Law, Topography. The school is in Orvieto, a historic medieval town in the heart of Italy. Orvieto (Italian: [orˈvjɛːto]) is a town in the Province of Terni, in southwestern Umbria, that is situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The city rises dramatically above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are completed by defensive walls built of the same stone, called tufo,