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This is Italy's most underrated city—and it has Roman ruins, truffles, and some of the best views in the country

It's time to meet one of Italy’s most delightful small cities. If you think about Assisi at all, you probably picture religious pilgrims. After all, this is the birthplace of St. Francis (San ...
Reuters

From better bulbs to more trees, Italy's Assisi takes on climate change

ASSISI, Italy (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The small medieval Italian pilgrimage town of Assisi, birthplace of Francis, Catholic patron saint of ecologists, is embarking on a quiet revolution. Mayor ...
Newsday

Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi — a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw

ASSISI, Italy — Pilgrims have been pouring into this medieval hilltop town to venerate not only two of the Catholic Church’s most celebrated saints, Francis and Clare, but its newest — Carlo Acutis, ...
Newsday

The bones of St. Francis are going on public display, a mixed blessing for Assisi

ASSISI, Italy — The bones of St. Francis of Assisi, the medieval friar who inspired Pope Francis and generations of Christians before him, are going on public display for the first time, giving his ...
Crux

Archbishop from Assisi brings first-class relic of Blessed Acutis to U.S.

Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino, Italy, processes with a reliquary containing a relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis during Mass at St. Anthony’s High School in South ...
Hyperallergic

The Last Tourist in Assisi

The Arcade outside the Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi, Italy, after the onset of the coronavirus (all photos by Debra Brehmer for Hyperallergic) ASSISI, Italy — The Basilica of Saint Francis is ...
Daily Trojan

Truffles in Assisi, Italy

About two hours south of Florence by car is the picturesque hilltop city of Assisi in the region of Umbria. Though well known for the Basilica of San Francesco d’Assisi with the works of famous ...