Assisano is a tourist region ofUmbria.
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Territories and tourist destinations
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43 ° 3′4 ″ N 12 ° 35′56 ″ E
Municipalities of AssisiUrban centers
- 1 Assisi —
City known for the Basilica of San Francesco and its cycle of Giottesque frescoes, but above all for being an important pilgrimage destination.
- 2 Bastia Umbra
- 3 Bettona - Defined as the balcony of Umbria, it is also counted among the most beautiful villages in Italy.
- Cannara
Other destinations
How to get
How to get around
What see
- 1 Hermitage of prisons.
Free.
08: 30-18: 30 (daylight saving time), 08: 30-17: 30 (solar time). It can be reached on foot, by car or by taxi. It is a hermitage in the mountains about 4 km from the center of Assisi and it is one of the places where Francis and his other companions retired to pray.
- 2 Santa Maria degli Angeli and Porziuncola, Piazza Porziuncola, 1, S. Maria degli Angeli (PG), ☎ 39 075 8051430, fax: 39 075 8051418, @[email protected].
Free.
06:15-12:40, 14:30-19:30. Inside there is the basilica containing the Porziuncola, the small church that was the seat of the first Franciscans and where Francis died.
- 3 Franciscan Sanctuary of Rivotorto, Via della Regola 2, Rivotorto (PG), ☎ 39 075 8065432, @[email protected].
Free. Sanctuary located in Rivotorto, a hamlet of Assisi, inside which there is the Sacro Hut, or the first houses of the Franciscan community.
Itineraries
- Via Carolingia - European itinerary that crosses the places traveled by the court of Charlemagne between the 8th and 9th centuries to travel from Aachen to Rome, where Pope Leo III crowned the Carolingian sovereign emperor of the Holy Roman Empire on Christmas night in the 19th century.