Assisi Self-Guided Tour: Pilgrims and Rebels

Highlights

• Flexible Duration
• Self-Guided Exploration
• Unique Stories

What's included

Itinerary

1. 1

   Porta Perlici

   5min

   Pass through doorposts laid by three civilizations.

2. 2

   Stop 2

   10min

   Find the font where Francis, Clare, and a future emperor were all baptized.

3. 3

   Stop 3

   5min

   Piece together a midnight escape through a coffin door and how Saint Clare was a pioneer.

4. 4

   Stop 4

   10min

   Stand in the piazza where a young man piled his clothes at his father's feet.

5. 5

   Museo della Memoria

   Pass by

   Hear how a cycling champion smuggled forged papers past Nazi checkpoints.

6. 6

   Chiesa Nuova

   10min

   Step inside the room where a father locked up his own son.

7. 7

   Piazza del Comune

   10min

   See the Roman temple that made Goethe ignore the Basilica of Saint Francis, and ask whether it even belongs to Minerva.

8. 8

   Volta Pinta

   10min

   Look up at Renaissance frescoes painted in a tunnel that once led somewhere the Church wanted you to forget.

Before you go

Location