Tag: Pope Gregorius IX
Verona: San Fermo Maggiore
Rome: Sant’Antonio dei Portoghesi
Rome: Sant’Eusebio
Bologna: San Domenico
Prato: Castello dell’Imperatore
Prato: San Francesco

It is clear that the church of San Francesco, which adjoins the eponymous square in Prato, wants to welcome foreign tourists: most of the information panels in the building are in both Italian and English. The church furthermore has an excellent and well-structured website, which contains a lot of information…
Piacenza: The Duomo
Orvieto: San Domenico
Rome: Saint Peter’s Basilica
Spoleto: San Paolo inter vineas
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…