Assisi: In the Footsteps of St. Francis - Guided City Tour

Highlights

• Guided Walking Tour
• St. Francis's Landmarks
• City Discovery

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Basilica di Santa Chiara

   15min

   Place of burial of St. Clare preserves the Crucifix of San Damiano that spoke to St. Francis. Even in the days of mob fascinates by its simplicity and mysticism that emanates.

2. 2

   Cattedrale di San Rufino

   15min

   Place of the Baptism of San Francesco as well as one of the most fascinating Romanesque churches in Umbria. Its facade is a book yet to be interpreted for the quantity and quality of the fantastic figures that adorn it!

3. 3

   Chiesa Nuova

   15min

   Built in the 1600s and therefore "new", it preserves the remains of the presumed birthplace of San Francesco, which belonged to his father Pietro Bernardone.

4. 4

   Piazza del Comune

   10min

   The "living room" of the city shows the remains of the ancient Temple of Minerva, now the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, and the palaces of the free medieval municipality: Palazzo dei Priori, del Capitano del Popolo

5. 5

   Basilica Papale e Sacro Convento di San Francesco d'Assisi

   30min

   The official biography of Saint Francis painted by Giotto and the shop is read as an open book through which to know the life and works of the Saint who has "refounded" the medieval Church. One of the absolute masterpieces of the art of all time and UNESCO patronage as the whole city of Assisi.

6. 6

   Basilica Papale e Sacro Convento di San Francesco d'Assisi

   30min

   The beauty as a mirror of the soul that here rests his gaze on the works of Cimabue, Simone Martini, Lorenzetti and Giotto that talk to us about the relationship between St. Francis and Christ.

Before you go

Location