Travel in Italy and World

The town of Assisi owes its fame worldwide for its most illustrious citizen, Francesco di Bernardone, better known worldwide as St. Francis of Assisi. Here born in 1181 (or 1182), after the battle between his city and Perugia at Collestrada, and his imprisonment is emptied of goods paternal, making one of the most significant gestures and evocative of Christianity, which would then led them to withdraw with some seguiaci, rebuilding the old abandoned church of San Damiano, who was the first nucleus of his preaching. Important Events in his life are preaching to birds, which occurred around Cannara, the episode with the ferocious wolf of Gubbio, which he ammansuetì, and the stigmata. He died on October 3, 1226, and were almost immediately began work on the lower basilica in the area of Assisi the first MP to capital punishment, and procedures for its sanctification, which occurred in 1228 (one of the fastest of all time) . His great follower was St. Clare of Assisi, who died always in Assisi on 11 August 1253 and who has dedicated a magnificent church near the Piazza del Comune di Assisi. St. Francis created three orders, that of Friars Minor, that of Clarisse, along with Santa Chiara, and today called Secular Franciscan Order.

Looking from the plain below Assisi we can not remain dazzled by the amount of the convent and basilicas of St. Francis, who dominate the northern part of town. Inside, other towers show the great spiritual wealth of the city, especially those of the aforementioned Church of Santa Chiara and the Cathedral of San Rufino, patron of the city. The latter stands on the site of a Christian basilica, visited by the museum close, which also included Roman ruins. on top of the city, the Rocca Maggiore, built by Cardinal Albornoz in the fourteenth century to restore papal authority over the city. Near the city is also visible the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, which contains within it the Porziuncola, place of death of St. Francis of Assisi, and the slopes of Subasio, the Hermitage prison, place of spiritual retreat beloved by St. Francis.

In the city there are many facilities, suitable for all needs and pockets: from bed and breakfast and hotel, to go to hostels and other forms of hospitality alternatives, some of which are managed by communities of nuns or brothers, vivire an extraordinary experience from the point of view spiritual. As in the rest of Umbria then, there are many farm in Umbria, to allow a vacation to contact the nature and green Umbrian.