Surroundings & Routes - Assisi

Assisi rises in the highest peak of the Subasio's mountain range, in a region like Umbria which has an almost hilly and mountainous land with people devoted to the agriculture since ancientry.

Assisi is, first of all the spiritual city par excellence, surrounded by mountains, nature and cultivated fields, and it has as emblem the beautiful St. Francisco's basilica.
In 1180 St. Francisco was born: the most famous citizen of Assisi.
Since 1206 Francisco devoted himself to Christ with the serving and helping the poor, living as a poor himself. His public renunciation of all the rich father's goods in the Assisi square.
In 1228, after only two months from his death, He was proclaimed Saint by Gregory The 9th Pope. The most important monument in Assisi is the complex of St. Francisco's basilica, composed by two churches laid one on top of the other. Furtheremore, the St. Chiara's basilica is worthy to be visited together with the St. Rufino's Cathedral with its romantic front decorated by three rose windows.
The Hermitage of Montecasale and of Verna are others important places to visit; there the Saint stayed for many times.