Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #2 in Assisi, Italy
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2.4 km
239 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 Minore
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.
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: 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 5: 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 6: Santa Maria sopra Minerva
Book Ticket*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.
Sight 7: 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 8: 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 9: 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 10: 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 11: 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.
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