Orvieto - Churches and places of worship Duomo Built in 1263 after the miracle of the blood which flowed from blessed bread while a Bohemian priest said mass in the Basilica of of Cristina in Bolsena
Assisi - Churches and places of worship Basilica di San Francesco The church is a cornerstone of Gothic in Italy and is the burial place of St. Francis. It is divided into upper and lower Basilica. The splendid decorations of the basilica were made by famous artists of that time such as Giotto.
Perugia - Churches and places of worship Cattedrale di San Lorenzo The cathedral of Perugia was designed around 1300 and built above the previous Romanesque cathedral. The façade, which has remained incomplete, is covered with white and pink marble tiles. The latest changes, in the mid-nineteenth century, gave the cathedral a neo-Gothic aspect at the will of the future Pope Leo XIII
Terni - Churches and places of worship Chiesa di San Francesco It was built in the thirteenth century in Gothic style, but over the centuries it has been rebuilt many times. Above the main portal there is an aperture of light, called Oculus. It is worth to see inside the frescoed Paradisi chapel.
Spoleto - Churches and places of worship Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta The Cathedral dates back to the end of the 12th century. Inside, numerous works of absolute importance: from the Painted Cross by Alberto Sotio (1187), to the cycle of the apse with Stories of the Virgin frescoed by Filippo Lippi between 1467 and 1469.
Spoleto - Churches and places of worship Basilica di Sant'Eufemia Among the most notable Romanesque buildings in Umbria (X-XII century) The church is characterized by an internal arrangement with three naves and the presence of the matroneo (entrance from the Diocesan Museum).
Assisi - Churches and places of worship Tempio di Minerva Temple of Minerva built in the late republican period in the 1st century BC 'erected by Quatorvirates Gneus Cesius and Titus Cesius Priscu. The monument has a lot to learn.
Perugia - Churches and places of worship Basilica di San Domenico It is the most impressive church in the city and among the largest in Central Italy. The facade with side buttresses, has a Baroque staircase. The marble coating was planned, remained unfinished. The bell tower has two orders of Gothic windows. The interior was modified with a pattern similar to St. Peter's in the Vatican because, due to design errors, after two centuries after construction, numerous collapses occurred.
Terni - Churches and places of worship Santuario Basilica S. Valentino The Basilica of St. Valentine underwent several reconstructions over the years. The first building dates back to the fourth century, and was built above the tomb of the martyr San Valentino, at an ancient early Christian necropolis. The current building, however, dates back to the 17th century, when under the pontificate of Paul V, the research of the relics of the saint was successfully started in the place where the first churches stood.
Tuoro sul Trasimeno - Churches and places of worship Chiesa di San Salvatore The church of San Salvatore is a romanesque building dating from the twelfth century. It has a beautiful stone portal with reliefs depicting animals and plant decorations, dates from the second half of the twelfth century.
Foligno - Churches and places of worship Monastero di Santa Lucia The monumental complex designed by architects Stefano Ittar and the Prince of Biscari was built at the end of the 18th century. Among the eighteenth-century structures, marble altars, a rococo choir and the majestic central altar with canopy cover emerge. The interior plan of the church consists of a single elliptical nave with a dome.
Foligno - Churches and places of worship Duomo di Foligno The Cathedral of San Feliciano, known as the Cathedral of Foligno, is a beautiful religious building built around the twelfth century. It is worth visiting.
Assisi - Churches and places of worship Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica of Santa Maria built on a grandiose scale, is the seventh largest Christian church. The chapel was given to St. Francis by the Benedictines,and is important because it was the initial nucleus from which the Franciscan order was born. A lot more to be learnt at the visit of the church.
Perugia - Churches and places of worship Monastero di Santa Caterina The monastery of Santa Caterina Vecchia dates back to the thirteenth century and in the mid-1500s it was renovated on behalf of the monastery of Santa Giuliana, which owned it until 1647. The interior of the church has paintings by Benedetto Bandiera. In the inner chapel there is a Via Crucis with captions in Latin and Spanish. In 1649, when the monastery was purchased by the nuns, restoration work was carried out. Since 1846 Saint Catherine has remained the only Benedictine women's monastery in the city.
Perugia - Churches and places of worship Monastero di Santa Lucia The Monastery of Santa Lucia was built in 1344 and is located in Perugia. In the courtyard of the monastery we find the Baroque church and inside there are three altars. It also has a library.
Perugia - Churches and places of worship Tempio di San Michele Arcangelo It is a church built in the 5th century, with a particular architecture, in typical Romanesque style and circular shape. This ancient and beautiful church is dedicated to the warrior angel. In 1487 the Baglioni family, who at the time owned the church, used it as a military arrowing. This church is part of the Archdiocese of Perugia-Città della Pieve.
Perugia - Churches and places of worship Oratorio di San Bernardino The color and effects of light dark, are obtained from polychrome marbles and from blue drafting of lapis lazuli and gold, today no longer visible in their splendor. The architectural structure resumes from the church of S. Andrea in Mantua by Leon Battista Alberti. The pattern of the facade is very simple: rectangular, gable crowned by a protruding roof.
Perugia - Churches and places of worship Oratorio di San Francesco The Oratory of the Brotherhood of the Disciplinated of Saint Francis was the ancient seat of the homonymous fraternity. It dates back to the 14th century and is a building rich in art works of great value. The elements of the building are the result of the work of numerous artists of the time: De Champagne, Gismondi, Di Galeotto among them.
Assisi - Churches and places of worship Convento di San Damiano St. Damians convent where St. Francis was ordered to restore the church in decay by the crucifix.
Nocera Umbra - Churches and places of worship Duomo Dedicated to the Assumption, it is located on top of the hill where once stood the fortress and offers a beautiful view. A Romanesque building, it was renovated several times, and completely rebuilt in 1448.
Cascia - Churches and places of worship Chiesa Gotica di San Francesco It was built in 1424 by Bishop Anthony Alms. Striking for the beauty of the rose window and its arched doorway. Worth seeing!
Deruta - Churches and places of worship Santuario della Madonna dei Bagni The small Sanctuary of Madonna dei Bagni is located on the road that goes from Perugia to Todi about 2 kilometers from Deruta in the town of Casalina.
Narni - Churches and places of worship Santuario Madonna del Ponte (d'Augusto) At 1 km from Narni railway station, a few steps from the Bridge of Augustus and San Cassiano, a substitution of the Via Flaminia was decorated for devotion.In the 18th century rediscovery, he dispensed thanks: it was surmounted from the current neoclassical sanctuary
Valtopina - Churches and places of worship Chiesa di Santa Cristina The patron saint of the city, probably the most ancient church in the place; a fascinating structure and location.
Collazzone - Churches and places of worship Convento di San Lorenzo The convent of San Lorenzo, not far from the castle of Collazzone, was home to Benedictine before and Franciscan then. The monastery consists of a part designed for the accommodation for the nuns and the church of Romanesque origin.
Assisi - Churches and places of worship Basilica di Santa Chiara Built in Gothic style between 1257 and 1265, it had this name after the death of Saint Clare. Seeing the exterior and the walls with white and rosy stones, three large polygonal buttresses in the shape of wide rampant arches attract attention. Inside we find frescoes and fragments on the life of the saint. Girolamo Marinelli and Sigismondo Spagnoli worked for the frescoes and wall paintings.
Assisi - Churches and places of worship Abbazia di San Pietro Abbey of St. Pietro was consecrated by pope Innocent IV in 1254 together with St. Francis and St. Rifunus.
Perugia - Churches and places of worship Monastero di Santa Agnese The Monastery of Sant'Agnese is located in Perugia and was built in 1329 by the nuns of the Monastery of Boneggio. The interior of the building is enriched with paintings by several painters dating back to the 17th century. Outside the building we find the cloistered wheel.
Terni - Churches and places of worship Chiesetta di San Rocco The original building dates back to the '600, even if it underwent a series of restorations: the last one was finished in October 2012. It is easily noticeable from its white façade, and the rectangular plan, to which the bell tower was added to it. It is currently privately owned, but it is still used for religious ceremonies, open to the public.
Perugia - Churches and places of worship Monastero della Beata Colomba The Monastery of Blessed Colomba was founded by Blessed Colomba da Rieti, in 1493. Blessed Colomba, born in Rieti on 2 February 1467, had the name of Angiolella Guadagnoli and was immediately called Colomba, because a dove was approached to her baptismal font, a sign of divine predilection . From the very early childhood, Angiolella showed signs of her nature as a Saint. The monastery has a simple and austere exterior and preserves the reconstruction of the cell of Blessed Colomba da Rieti.
Cascia - Churches and places of worship Monastero di Santa Rita The old part of the monastery dates back to 1200, it was dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. It was enlarged in the first half of 1700 with the generous offer of John V, King of Portugal, the eye healed of cancer through the intercession of the saint.
Gubbio - Churches and places of worship Santuario Sant'ubaldo The construction of the church dates back to the 13th century and was restored in the first half of the '500. The interior has five naves, on which the Ceri di Gubbio are preserved. Above the altar is the body of the patron Eugubino S. Ubaldo. There are also many paintings that deserve attention and to be seen. The outside has no ornaments, except the front door.
Narni - Churches and places of worship Abbazia Fortificata San Cassiano The Fortified Abbey of San Cassiano dates back to the tenth century and is located on Monte San Croce in Narni, in the headquarters of a fortified monastery dating back to the 6th century. With the restorations carried out in 1971, the perimeter walls and those of the church were brought back to their origin. The façade was also rebuilt, maintaining Byzantine architecture.
Perugia - Churches and places of worship Monastero di San Benedetto The monastery is of fifteenth-century origin, despite the restorations of the '600. It was founded by Giovanni Battista da Gubbio, a hermit of the time, and his companions. The architecture is very accurate and inside we find artistic works from the late Gothic period: paintings, frescoes, and sculptures of the '300. Today the building is the headquarters of ADISU (Agency for the Right to University Study of Umbria).
Amelia - Churches and places of worship Convento della Santissima Annunziata Montenero Inside the church, of linda and eloquent Franciscan simplicity, is located on the high altar a canvas with the Annunciation by Domenico Bruschi (1890), also author of the frescoes of the “Chapel of the Transit” in the sanctuary of Porziuncola.
Foligno - Churches and places of worship Oratorio Madonna del Gonfalone The Oratory of Madonna del Gonfalone is located in Piazza San Francesco. The property has an elegant decoration of the Rococo style. It has an elliptical shape and the spaces marked by altars of the same type. The construction of the Oratory dates back to the 16th century. The current aspect is that of the last restoration of 1730.
Foligno - Churches and places of worship Collegiata di San Salvatore The collegiate church of San Salvatore was erected in the X-XII century. It is an ancient Benedictine structure with a facade of the fourteenth century that has three pointed portals surmounted by three rose windows. In the interior of the church you can admire the burial stone of Corradino Trinci, who was the prior of the collegiate church. You can admire the ancient frescoes, the Madonna with the Child, Saint John the Baptist and Blessed Pietro Crisci.
Foligno - Churches and places of worship Monastero Sant'anna The Monastery was founded in the second half of the fourteenth century by Fra' Paoluccio Trinci. At that time he exercised his monasterial function for a group of young noble girls, for which he was also known as the 'Countess' Monastery. The building is full of frescoes from the 15th century, which make the decoration of the monastery very special; we can also mention its two famous interior cloisters. Currently, at the center of the building we can also find “La Casa Beata Angelina”, an institute of religious women, it is a receptive structure also open to the public.
Churches and places of worship Chiesa di Pieve di Confine p.zza mazzini, 10 - Tuoro sul Trasimeno The Church is located in the border between Perugia and Cortona, in the west part of the town of Tuoro sul Trasimeno. It is a romanesque building, of the XIth century, and nowadays is stil well preserved.
Churches and places of worship Chiesa di San Francesco Built in 1494 on the basis of a small oratory, has a remarkable interior decoration of the sixteenth century. Charming the late - Gothic front stone portal.