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A True Italian Experience offers private tours of Umbria, including Assisi: Assisi is the birthplace of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), who, after participating in the battle between Assisi and Perugia and being held prisoner for a year, decided to give up all material goods and be close with nature and his spirituality. He received his calling in a small church (La Porzincula) now housed in a large church called Santa Maria degli Angeli in what used to be the wooded area at the foot of Assisi. He and his companions often meditated in a monastery within the rocks of the mountains above Assisi called Eremo delle Caceri to be close to the Earth. When he died he requested that his remains be placed on a hillside formerly known as la collina del'inferno (the hill of hell) where executions used to take place. The grand basilica of St. Francis was built on this hill now known as la collina del paradiso (the hill of paradise) where his body was placed four years after his death. The famous Umbrian painter Giotto created 28 frescoes telling his life story on the upper level of the church while Saint Francis' tomb is on the lower level.
Assisi_la Rocca.JPG
A True Italian Experience offers private tours of Umbria, including Assisi: Assisi is the birthplace of Saint Francis of Assisi (1182-1226), who, after participating in the battle between Assisi and Perugia and being held prisoner for a year, decided to give up all material goods and be close with nature and his spirituality. He received his calling in a small church (La Porzincula) now housed in a large church called Santa Maria degli Angeli in what used to be the wooded area at the foot of Assisi. He and his companions often meditated in a monastery within the rocks of the mountains above Assisi called Eremo delle Caceri to be close to the Earth. When he died he requested that his remains be placed on a hillside formerly known as la collina del'inferno (the hill of hell) where executions used to take place. The grand basilica of St. Francis was built on this hill now known as la collina del paradiso (the hill of paradise) where his body was placed four years after his death. The famous Umbrian painter Giotto created 28 frescoes telling his life story on the upper level of the church while Saint Francis' tomb is on the lower level.