Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi

Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi

Also known as Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi

Year

1253

Type

building

The Basilica of San Francesco stands on the western edge of Assisi on the Colle del Paradiso, the hill that Francis had chosen as a burial ground for the poor. Pope Gregory IX canonised Francis on 16 July 1228 and laid the foundation stone …

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