If you're an architecture buff, take some time to check out the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, which was constructed beginning in 1869. Located a block east of the Santa Fe Plaza ...

Take a flight of discovery high above the sacred town of Assisi, nestled in the Umbrian hills. This aerial journey captures ...

When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small Italian town two hours from Rome by train—I ...

Francis asked in his will, opened after his death Monday, that he be entombed close to the basilica’s chapel of St. Francis of Assisi ... On Christmas night in 1538, St. Ignatius of Loyola ...

The basilica is Assisi contains a cycle of more than two dozen frescoes illustrating crucial moments in St. Francis’ life — including the “spogliazione.” Painted by Giotto at the end of ...