Full Day Tour To Assisi and Cortona

Guests will depart from the hotel at 9:00am and 19:00pm

Visit Assisi, the famous town of St Francis where there are many beautiful churches: The Basilica of San Francesco is the great monument to the Saint and was started after he was canonized in 1228 inside it holds frescoes by Giotto, Cimabue and Lorenzetti.

Three more churches merit your attention: The Cattedrale di San Ruffino and The Basilica di Santa Chiara. The third church is the Basilica degli Angeli, built over and around the little chapel, the Porziuncola,
where the angels visited St Francis. Besides its many churches, Assisi also has some fine secular buildings, Piazza del Comune with a torre, Palazzo del Comune and a Palazzo del Capitano del Popolo.Next
guests will visit Cortona one of the oldest cities in Tuscany founded by the Etruscans whose work can still be seen in the foundations of the town's massive stone walls.The city was a major seat of power during the medieval period, able to hold its own against larger towns like Siena and Arezzo. Its decline was followed the defeat by Naples in 1409 after which it was sold to Florence and lost its autonomy.

Cortona’s narrow streets and alleyways give you the impression of how it must have been in these small isolated towns in the medieval period, and one realizes  how much history a little town can contain. Cortona has been made famous by the book Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes.