We visited Assisi in 2011, primarily to see the art of the great church, Cimabuie, Lorenzetti, Martini, others, but mostly Giotto's enormous cycle of early 14th century frescoes depicting the life of St. Francis. As in 2011, there is still a "NO FOTOS!" policy, but in 2017, I think I got some better shots, at least in the lower church. The 2011 post is at
https://roadeveron.blogspot.com/2011/05/st-francis-duomo.html.
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We stayed at a nice AgroTourism sosta, 900m from the church |
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There |
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The 900m was up a brick Peace path...St. F was
big on peace |
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Hundreds of names of peace makers |
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OK, it's not a national museum; rather, a friary and papal
basilica |
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Outdoor resto; please keep your feet out of the street |
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Another vertical sort of place, Assisi |
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"Thou shalt not spill motor oil upon consecrated ground" |
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Me giving the secret sign |
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Apse in the lower (non-papal) church; mostly Giotto here, though lots of Lorenzetti, Cimabuie elsewhere |
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J. Iscariot |
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Betrayal (I was playing hide and seek with a guard, snapping pix from behind pillars, waiting for him to yell at others...one of whom was a nun who seemed quite flustered at being yelled at by a civilian |
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St. F. saving people |
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In a lower side chapel...still processing this one |
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Umbrian countryside, from the enormous mostly religious and not touristy gift shoppe |
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Now in the upper, papal church, where there are fewer pillars, etc., to sneak around and hide behind |
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For pix of the Team Giotto frescoes, see the 2011 post; this time, we were less impressed...they're so big and so far away; we prefer the Arena Chapel, definitely, more intimate, although it's just Giotto and not the whole cavalcade of late Medieval Italian art |
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Back in the lower church for a shot of Cimabuie's portrait of Francis, the oldest and closest to contemporaneous |
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Crypt and F's burial |
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Upper town of Assisi |
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