Assisi - Franciscan Friary

Both churches are decorated with beautiful frescoes (13th-14th century). In the first chapel of the lower church remarkable scenes from the life of St Francis by Giotto and Simone Martini can be seen. In the choir of the upper church and in the transepts there are frescoes by Cimabue, in the nave 28 scenes from the life of St Francis by Giotto and his pupils. In the crypt, added in 1818 and enlarged in 1925-32 can be seen a stone sarcophagus, containing the saint's remains. In the large cloister is the treasury.