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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/umbria/assisi/travel-guides/travel-tips/saint-francis-of-assisi
so drastically and want to live like the poorest of the poor? After fighting in the war, as part of the cavalry, between Assisi and Perugia, the inexperienced young soldier was captured and put in prison. Most soldiers were killed and not held as...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/umbria/assisi/communal-square-assisi
Communal Square Piazza del Comune Piazza del Comune, Assisi’s cornerstone, tells the city’s history through its buildings. Its North side is dominated by the Temple of Minerva flanked by the Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo, built in 1282. The South...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/umbria/assisi/church-of-santa-maria-maggiore-assisi
from Gubbio, the same architect who built the Cathedral of San Rufino). The church of Santa Maria Maggiore was originally Assisi’s cathedral, but Bishop Ugone transferred this title to the church of San Rufino. The church has three naves separated by...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/umbria/assisi/church-of-st-peter-assisi
tombs. An Early Medieval sarcophagus under the high altar holds the body of San Vittorino, a martyr, the third bishop of Assisi and the co-protector of the city. The splendid Gothic chapel of the Blessed Sacrament contains a precious triptych; the...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/umbria/assisi/palazzo-del-capitano-del-popolo
inkwell- are in a coat of arms on the archway. On a stone table at the base of the tower, you can see measurements used in Assisi during 14th century: those for measuring roof tiles and bricks with their profiles, for measuring wool, linen and silk...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/umbria/assisi/oratorio-of-the-pilgrims-assisi
Oratory of Pilgrims is found halfway down via San Francesco, the long road connecting the upper Basilica to the centre of Assisi. The chapel is almost hidden, but hosts magnificent frescos. Originally the chapel was dedicated to Saint Anthony the Great...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/umbria/assisi/temple-of-minerva-assisi
one of the most vivid and passionate descriptions was given by Goethe in his “Italian Journey” describing, while visiting Assisi in 1786, his feelings about this building.
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/umbria
teems with a wildlife that includes cormorants, kites, and kingfishers. One of Umbria's most famous sons was St Francis of Assisi and the Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi is a focal point for both tourists and pilgrims. Built in the mid-13th-century...
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• https://www.italyguides.it/en/umbria/assisi/basilica-of-santa-chiara-assisi
Upon Saint Clare’s death in mid 1200s, the exterior of the ancient church of Saint George -hosting Saint Francis’ body until 1230- was re-built in the Gothic style and entitled to Saint Clare. Clare originated from a bourgeois family; she escaped an...
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