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Mediaeval Assisi

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Mediaeval Assisi definitely a place you need to visit in Italy especially if you’re interested in Saint Francis at his live nature and animals. His tomb is here in the large basilica so you can come and visit or pay your respects or whatever.

You can stay here in this city on the hill or you can stay down on the flatland near the train station and then take a bus up to this city in about 20 minutes and the buses run every 15 or 20 minutes so it’s easy to get around. This is a government building right by the bus stop
After you get off the bus you walk down this narrow street to a small Piazza
Since this city has been around for many hundreds of years the streets are very narrow
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This is one of the first things you see when you enter this church. I’m not quite sure what it is but it looks like something leading down to the original structure or something meant for some purpose and it’s no longer used
If you are interested in lighting candles for some blessing you will notice that some of the churches in Italy have installed electric candles. That way you pay some money and an electric candle lights up. But many of the churches still have wax candles
This fellow I saw promoted in a church as a recent saint. I’m sure it’s important to keep things current in the Catholic Church and so this fellow is very greatly revered. one thing I did not realize before coming here is that this is the actual church where he is entombed. you’re not supposed to take a photo of the tomb out of respect. Above his remains is a glass box where you can see a wax replica of him lying down
I’m sure this pope is very prominent in this hallway presentation because he visited
This city is organized around Saint Francis so you will see a lot of attention paid to nature. This is just someone’s yard
The entrance to paradise
It’s interesting to note this is the road to paradise
This is the Fortress on top of the hill which has been here for as long as the Romans were here
a view from the castle
Assisi below the castle
so this famous artist had an exhibition here
This is his signature design and this one seems to be permanent just below the castle
This is in the mountain South America, a project he was commissioned to do
This was done in the arena in Verona
he got somebody in outer space to do this for him
There is a hidden Borsalino here

Chiesa di Santa Maria Sopra Minerva

on this site was a Roman temple to Minerva and on top of that a church was built.

You can see the columns of the Minerva temple which were rescued from the ruins
Next to the temple is the tower.
Before ascending I asked how many steps. The answer was 128
This is the first time I’ve been on the backside of a clock
The former king of Italy comes to pay respects to the town as it changes guardianship from the Vatican to the nation of Italy
The tower has a beautiful view
Here you can see a metal ball and a mechanism which allows it to strike the bell
There are many interesting remains from excavations of Roman artifacts
Back down in the town near the station of Assisi you can see that not only people choose their shoes but here you can see the shoes will soon choose the person
Some interesting artwork
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