Assisi San Francesco Day Tour
Day Tour to Umbria Assisi from Rome
Assisi San Francesco Day Tour
Duration:
FULL DAY 12 Hours
Pick Up:
Rome Hotel
Starting Time:
8:00 Am from Rome Hotel
Itinerary
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Basilica Santa Maria Degli Angeli
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Basilica San Francesco
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Piazza della Minerva
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Santa Chiara
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San Damiano Church
Meeting Point:
Your driver will meet you at your Rome Hotel
Inclusions:
Tour Price includes
Private deluxe vehicle with professional English- speaking driver, Italy tax vat, fuel, insurance, fees.
Exclusion:
Tour price is does not included fees,lunch,gratuites.
Licensed Tour Guides / Walking Tours ( * you will Self Tour without a guide)
entrance fees to museum or monuments, lunch, gratuites.
Payment
will be made in Euro funds at the end of your journey directly to your driver, or you may prepay in advance via PayPal or credit card nwith 5% service charge
Policy Cancellation
Please, note that there will be no charge if you cancel your reservation by e-mail within at least 24 hours before date of requested service. If is not done in these terms, our company reserves the right to debit the “no show fee” on your credit card.
Description
This tour is designed for those of you who are devoted to St. Francis of Assisi. On this journey you can retrace the footsteps of St. Francis and St. Clare, and visit the Monastery of Santa Chiara and the Basilica of San Francesco.
Your private driver will pick you up at 8:00 am from your hotel in Rome. We will make the journey taking about 2 hours to arrive at Assisi and your scheduled returned back to your destination will be 5.00pm.
SANTA MARIA OF THE ANGELS
The first stop is the Baroque Basilica Santa Maria degli Angeli, where you will visit the first of two chapels, firstly the Portiuncula Chapel where St Francis of Assisi died on October 3, 1226 San Francisco.
ASSISI
Our next stop is the Basilica di San Francesco, also known as the Upper Basilica and lower Basilica. Here you will find the tomb of St. Francis, where the walls are decorated by the famous painters of the late Middle Ages; Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini and Pietro lorenzetti.
Let's stop in Assisi for a delicious lunch in one of the many trattorias, and then we continue to visit the church of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva in the main square.
We have now reached the clear Basilica of Santa, here is preserved the her body and exposed her body visible to all pilgrims, whose face is covered by a thin layer of wax.
Here you can also see the clothes of St. Francis and St. Clear and the strands of the holy hair that were cut when she became a nun.
The church and the convent of San Damiano are located just outside Assisi, where St. Francis received his vocation in 1205 and died here in 1253 Santa Chiara.
Thus ends our tour of Assisi and then we return back to Rome.
you have visited the eternal city of Rome, we would thoroughly recommend an exciting tour through the magnificent Tuscan countryside, to visit the cities of Arezzo and Cortona. Both of these cities have a fantastic medieval atmosphere, which takes you back to years gone by giving you an amazing experience.
The tour starts from your hotel in Rome, where our driver will pick you up at 8:00 in the morning. After your visit through the amazing countryside that is Umbria, we will take you to Arezzo.
Please note this tour provides at a Chauffeur who is not a professional and licensed Guide. Licensed tour guide if you prefer We can organized a tour with a professional licended local guide, please enquire for quote and more information.