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Description
(Local Name: Basilica di San Francesco) Part of the Franciscan friary in Assisi is the impressive two-storyed church, the Basilica di San Francesco, built over St Francis's tomb. The dark lower church has squat Late Romanesque vaulting (1228-53) and a vestibule added in 1488, the upper church, completed in 1253, is Italy's earliest Gothic church.

The basilica suffered extensive earthquake damage in 1997.
Hobbies & Activities category: Architecture - Gothic;  Christian sites;  Tombs, burial site
Attractions within St Francis Basilica

Frescoes

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
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Do-It-Yourself Tours
Address
Basilica di San Francesco
Piazza San Francesco
I-06081 Assisi
Italy
Hours
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Open6:006:006:006:006:006:006:00
Closed17:0017:0017:0017:0017:0017:0017:00
Cost
FREE
Tips
Opening hours apply to lower church only.
Tourist visit during mass time on Sunday morning are considered inappropriate.
Disabled
Full facilities for persons with disabilities.
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