Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Assisi, Italy

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Number of sights 17 sights
Distance 3.1 km
Ascend 165 m
Descend 287 m

Explore Assisi in Italy with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in AssisiIndividual Sights in Assisi

Sight 1: Rocca Maggiore

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Rocca Maggiore Hagai Agmon-Snir حچاي اچمون-سنير חגי אגמון-שניר / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Rocca Maggiore is a castle which dominated, for more than eight hundred years, the citadel of Assisi and the valley of Tescio, constituting the most viable fortification for their defense.

Wikipedia: Rocca Maggiore (EN)

484 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 2: Cattedrale di San Rufino

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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.

Wikipedia: Assisi Cathedral (EN)

123 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Museo diocesano e cripta di San Rufino

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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.

Wikipedia: Assisi Diocesan Museum (EN)

332 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: Basilica di Santa Chiara

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Basilica di Santa Chiara

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.

Wikipedia: Basilica di Santa Chiara (EN), Website

201 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 5: Oratorio di San Francesco piccolino

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The church of San Francesco Piccolino is a religious building in the center of Assisi, near the Chiesa Nuova.

Wikipedia: Oratorio di San Francesco Piccolino (IT)

50 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 6: Chiesa Nuova

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Chiesa Nuova

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.

Wikipedia: Chiesa Nuova, Assisi (EN)

210 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 7: Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore

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The Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, also known as Sanctuary of the Spoliation, is a church in Assisi, Umbria, central Italy.

Wikipedia: Santa Maria Maggiore, Assisi (EN)

217 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Assisi

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Assisi is a town and comune of Italy in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio.

Wikipedia: Assisi (EN)

51 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Foro Romano e Collezione archeologica

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Foro Romano e Collezione archeologica José Luiz / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Civic Museum and Roman Forum of Assisi allows you to visit the remains of the ancient Roman forum of the town and also contains a collection of pertinent archaeological objects.

Wikipedia: Museo civico e Foro romano di Assisi (IT)

199 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Chiesa di Santo Stefano

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Chiesa di Santo Stefano

The church of Santo Stefano is a medieval church of Assisi, in central Italy.

Wikipedia: Santo Stefano, Assisi (EN)

300 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 11: Galleria d'arte contemporanea della Pro Civitate Christiana

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The Gallery of Contemporary Art is part of the Umbrian Ecclesiastical Museum Network, and is curated by the Observatory of the Pro Civitate Christiana of Assisi.

Wikipedia: Galleria d'arte contemporanea (Assisi) (IT)

306 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 12: Chiesa di San Pietro

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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.

Wikipedia: Abbey of Saint Peter (Assisi) (EN)

362 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 13: Museo missionario indios

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The Indios - Capuchin Friars of Umbria Missionary Museum in the Amazon was founded in 2011, but in Assisi a museum dedicated to Capuchin missionaries had existed since 1973. The creative spirit came from Father Luciano Matarazzi, a friar passionate about the Amazon who built the Indios Missionary Museum through gifts that the missionaries brought him shuttling between the Brazilian region of Alto Solimões and Assisi: stuffed animals, butterflies, musical instruments, masks and handicrafts of various kinds.

Wikipedia: Museo missionario multimediale d'Europa (IT)

216 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 14: Basilica superiore di San Francesco d'Assisi

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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 St. Francis of Assisi.

Wikipedia: Basilica superiore di San Francesco d'Assisi (IT)

62 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 15: Basilica inferiore di 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 splendidly 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, to the left side of the nave.

Wikipedia: Basilica inferiore di San Francesco d'Assisi (IT)

6 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 16: Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi

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Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi

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.

Wikipedia: Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi (EN)

11 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 17: Museo del Tesoro della Basilica di San Francesco e Collezione Perkins

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Museo del Tesoro della Basilica di San Francesco e Collezione Perkins

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 Poverello. Since 1986 the Museum has housed the F. M. Perkins collection including works donated to the Order of Friars Minor Conventual by the American art critic, Franciscan tertiary, who died in Assisi in October 1955.

Wikipedia: Museo del Tesoro della basilica di San Francesco (IT), Website

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