Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi

Assisi is a hill town in Umbria, in central Italy. It is the birthplace of San Francesco (1181-1226), one of the patron saints of Italy. The basilica of San Francesco is an imposing church on 2 levels consecrated in 1253. The thirteenth-century frescoes depicting the life of San Francesco have been attributed, among others, to Giotto and Cimabue. The crypt houses the saint's stone sarcophagus.

Palazzo Vallemani is the most beautiful palace in Assisi: it is located a few minutes from Piazza del Comune, in Via San Francesco. The main floor is completely frescoed by Umbrian and Tuscan painters of the 1600s and houses the Municipal Art Gallery with medieval and Renaissance frescoes from civil and religious buildings in Assisi and its surroundings. The collection was formed immediately after the unification of Italy to avoid the dispersion of the works that had previously belonged to religious congregations. The most important pieces in the collection are a Majesty attributed to Giotto and some paintings by Perugino. In the rooms on the first floor there is the "Museum of memory, Assisi 1943-1944", an exhibition on the 300 Jews saved from Nazi extermination thanks to the welcome in Assisi.

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