To only one and a half hour in car from Rome, toward the north, Assisi, a small city with a lot of charm is and known worldwide to be the place in that San Francisco was born. This birth has marked to the village since its main buildings they refer to this Saint, lover of the animals.

• Convento e Basilica di San Francesco

• The Convent and San Francisco's Basilica constitute an architectural group of great interest. The Basilica is formed by two superimposed churches, the facade, adorned with a double rosette, and the steeple that dates of the year 1239. In the inferior square, porticada and of the XV century, it is the entrance to the Inferior Church that is the sanctuary where the Saint's remains located in the crypt that is composed of a single ship of low columns rest. Of here to the entrance esplanade that drives to the Cloister, of styles románico-Gothic, with a ship decorated with fresh of the call Teacher of San Francisco of the XIII century. In this Inferior Church diverse chapels can be contemplated among those that highlight the third of the right, decorated with cool airs attributed Giotto and their pupils of the year 1314 and the first of the left, decorated by Simone Martini with Historys of the life of San Martin of the years 1322 and 1326. The vault of the apse is adorned with fresh allegorical of the school of Giotto. In the apse one can admire a wooden choir of the XV century with Gothic forms. In the left arm of the cruise they stand out the cool airs of Pietro Lorenzetti representing the Passion and in the right the cool airs of Giotto and their pupils representing histories of Christ's life. Through this Cruise you consents to the Superior Church, of Gothic style, in which can be seen, in the low part the famous series of fresh of Giotto that represent 28 scenes of the life of San Francisco from Assisi and in the high part, the cool airs of the School of Cimabue and Roman, I. Torriti. In the Cruise paintings are shown to the cool air of Cimabue and pupils and in the apse, the carved wooden choir of the XV century (in the year of 1997 Assisi it suffered a strong earthquake that I provoke serious damages in the historical group. Some cool airs have gotten lost forever).

  The Treasure contains wonderful paintings of the centuries XIII-XV, excellent tapestries of the XV-XVI centuries,

• Convento di San Damiano

• This convent was built in the XIII century around the country oratory, in which is supposed that the Crucifix spoke San Francisco in the year 1205. Beside the small church it is Santa Clara's Garden in which is said that the Saint composed the Song of the Creatures.

• Eremo delle Carceri

• Located in a forest of oaks and carrascos that it covers the hillsides of the mount Subasio, place it went to the one that San Francisco retired to meditate. This place is surrounded by a series of hermits' grottos; here the Convent is summoned been founded in the XV century. Beside the Church the primitive eremo is located, from which goes down to the Saint's Grotto.

  Sacred Maria degli Angeli TO 5 kilometers of Assisi is this impressive Basilica of the years 1569-1679, work of Alessi, built in the place where the Franciscan Order was founded. Under the high dome it is the oratory that dates of the X-XI centuries and to the right of the apse the famous Chapel of the Traffic, the cell where San Francisco died in the year 1226. It is in this chapel where one can see the Saint's statue carried out by A. Della Robbia in enameled terracotta. Near this church one can see San Francisco's famous Roseto, splendid garden where the five rosebushes can be admired without thorns planted by the Saint, as well as the chapel decorated with fresh of the XVI century. The museum with sacred tackle of the XIV-XVIII centuries, colored charts and reliquaries, is in the convent.