St Francis of Assisi

Day 94

---

April 27th 2007
Assisi was gorgeous! It was about a 2 and a half hour bus ride, then we had to park in a parking lot outside of the town and take an escalator up to it, since the town is on a hill. We had a tour of the town that ended at St. Francis of Assisi. (They’re big on him there, I wonder why…haha) I think we all would agree that the tour was a bit much. The man was very knowledgeable, but I felt like ... read more

Europe » Italy » Umbria » Assisi

---

Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more