13 Sights in Assisi, Italy (with Map and Images)

The Temple of Minerva is an ancient Roman building in Assisi, Umbria, central Italy. It currently houses a church, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, built in 1539 and renovated in Baroque style in the 17th century.

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The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town in the Umbria region in central Italy, where Saint Francis was born and died. It is a papal minor basilica and one of the most important places of Christian pilgrimage in Italy. With its accompanying friary, Sacro Convento, the basilica is a distinctive landmark to those approaching Assisi. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.

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The Basilica of Saint Clare is a church in Assisi, central Italy. It is dedicated to and contains the remains of Clare of Assisi, a follower of Francis of Assisi and founder of the Order of Poor Ladies, known today as the Order of Saint Clare.

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The Chiesa Nuova is a church in Assisi, Italy, built in 1615 on the site of the presumed birthplace of St. Francis, the house of Pietro di Bernardone. It was then called Chiesa Nuova because it was the last church to be built in Assisi at that time.

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The upper basilica of St. Francis of Assisi is one of the two structures that make up the basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, along with the lower basilica. It is accessed from the upper square of San Francesco d'Assisi.

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The Lower Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi is one of the two structures that make up the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, along with the Upper Basilica. Equipped with a crypt and beautifully frescoed by some of the greatest artists of the Italian fourteenth century, it is accessed from the lower square of San Francesco, through a portal that leads, due to the slope of the hill, into the left side of the nave.

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Assisi Cathedral, dedicated to San Rufino, is a major church in Assisi, Italy. This stately church in Umbrian Romanesque style was the third church built on the same site to contain the remains of bishop Rufinus of Assisi, martyred in the 3rd century. The construction was started in 1140 to the designs by Giovanni da Gubbio, as attested by the wall inscription visible inside the apse. He may be the same Giovanni who designed the rose-window on the façade of Santa Maria Maggiore in 1163.

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The Gallery of Contemporary Art is one of the collections of the Christian Observatory of the Pro Civitate Christiana (PCC) of Assisi. The Observatory, a building of particular architectural interest designed by the architect Pina Ciampani in 1961, houses an Art Gallery, a Library and a Sound Archives and intended to document the figure of Christ in the ancient and contemporary cultural world.

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The Oratory of San Francesco Piccolino, or the Chapel of Little St Francis is a small devotional chapel in the centre of Assisi, near the Chiesa Nuova held by pious tradition to be the birthplace of Francis of Assisi. Many have falsely considered it to be the saints childhood home.

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The Abbey of St. Peter is a Benedictine abbey in Assisi inhabited by a small community of monks belonging to the Cassinese Congregation. The monastery has supported a hospital for the sick, an agricultural colony, and an orphanage run by the Stigmata Sisters.

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The Assisi Diocesan Museum, in the city of Assisi, Italy, was founded in 1941 by bishop Giuseppe Placido Niccolini to preserve the most important works of art of the Assisi Cathedral and of several oratories of Assisi's confraternities. The museum is located underneath the piazza of the cathedral and has a collection consisting of about 300 works of which 100 are on display, exhibited in the museum's nine sections.

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The Rocca Minore Castle is the smaller of the two fortifications in the Italian city of Assisi and is located northeast of the historic center of the city. The larger fortification is the Rocca Maggiore opposite.

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The Museum of the Treasure of the Basilica of St. Francis is a collection of sacred art exhibited in two rooms of the North Palace of the Sacred Convent of Assisi, with access from the first floor of the Renaissance Cloister of Sixtus IV, close to the apse of the famous basilica that houses the remains of the Poor Man. Since 1986 the Museum has housed the F. M. Perkins collection including the works donated to the Order of Friars Minor Conventual by the American art critic, a Franciscan tertiary, who died in Assisi in October 1955.

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