Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Assisi, Italy
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3.1 km
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 AssisiSight 1: Rocca Maggiore
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.
Sight 2: Cattedrale di San Rufino
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.
Sight 3: Museo diocesano e cripta di San Rufino
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.
Sight 4: Basilica di Santa Chiara
Book Ticket*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.
Sight 5: Oratorio di San Francesco piccolino
The church of San Francesco Piccolino is a religious building in the center of Assisi, near the Chiesa Nuova.
Sight 6: Chiesa Nuova
Book Ticket*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.
Sight 7: Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore
The Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, also known as Sanctuary of the Spoliation, is a church in Assisi, Umbria, central Italy.
Sight 8: Assisi
Assisi is a town and comune of Italy in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio.
Sight 9: Foro Romano e Collezione archeologica
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.
Sight 10: Chiesa di Santo Stefano
The church of Santo Stefano is a medieval church of Assisi, in central Italy.
Sight 11: Galleria d'arte contemporanea della Pro Civitate Christiana
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.
Sight 12: Chiesa di San Pietro
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.
Sight 13: Museo missionario indios
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.
Sight 14: Basilica superiore di San Francesco d'Assisi
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)
Sight 15: Basilica inferiore di San Francesco d'Assisi
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)
Sight 16: Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
Book Ticket*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.
Sight 17: 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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