Category: Umbria
Gubbio: Sant’Ubaldo
Gubbio: Palazzo Ducale & Gubbio in Giotto’s age
Gubbio: The Duomo
Gubbio: San Domenico
Gubbio: San Giovanni Battista
Gubbio: Sant’Agostino
Gubbio: San Francesco
Umbria: Amelia (part 2)

The church of San Francesco is located right next to the archaeological museum of Amelia. It replaced an earlier parish church dedicated to Saints Philip and James. My travel guide actually still calls the building the church of Santi Filippo e Giacomo, and this caused some confusion at the tourist…
Umbria: Amelia (part 1)
Umbria: Carsulae
Spoleto: Museo Diocesano and Sant’Eufemia
Spoleto: San Gregorio Maggiore
Spoleto: Remains of a Roman city

The area around Spoleto has been inhabited since at least the eighth century BCE. Rich grave finds from several necropolises demonstrate that there must have been a settlement here of some importance. Excavations in 2008-2009 in the Piazza d’Armi, north of the railway station, have for instance uncovered the tomb…
Spoleto: San Paolo inter vineas
Spoleto: San Pietro
Spoleto: San Ponziano
Spoleto: Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Spoleto: The Duomo

Spoleto’s cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta or Duomo can certainly be counted among the city’s many highlights. The current Duomo was built in the late twelfth and early thirteenth century and replaced an earlier cathedral which seems to date from the eighth or ninth century. This earlier cathedral, known as…
Assisi: Basilica di San Francesco

“Of all the Roman monuments at the end of the thirteenth century, the most Roman was, paradoxically, the double basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, the mother church of the new order of Franciscan friars”.[1] I can only agree with this assessment by Giotto expert Francesca Flores d’Arcais. The Basilica…