Assisi

Assisi is a city of 28,000¹ located on a hill at the foot of one of the Appennini² Mountains in Perugia Province, Umbria Region Italia.³ The founders of two Roman Catholic Christian religious orders lived here in the 12th century and UNESCO honors as a World Heritage Site the buildings associated with that tradition and earlier Christian buildings. The structures include the Basilica of San Francesco⁴ (started 1228), the Cathedral of San Rufino (started eighth century but rebuilt in the 11th), the Basilica of Santa Chiara⁵ (started 1257), the abbey of San Pietro (mentioned in 1029)⁶ and Santa Maria degli Angeli⁷ which houses the chapel of Porziuncola. Nearby are the monastic complex of San Damiano and the convent of Eremo delle Carceri.⁸

UNESCO honors Scicli along with other southeastern cities that were rebuilt in late Baroque style after their destruction by a 1693 earthquake.

External references

Basilica of San Francesco, Assisi, Perugia, Umbria, Italia

Footnotes

1. 2016 figure from the side bar of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisi, accessed February 15, 2017.
2. Apennine in English.
3. Italy in English.
4. Saint Francis in English.
5. Saint Clare in English.
6. Saint Peter in English.
7. Saint Mary of the Angels in English.
8. Information about the buildings is from UNESCO, World Heritage Sites (Firefly Books, 2010).