Assisi & Cortona (Umbria & Tuscany Region) - Ultimate Tour Experience
Cortona - the under the Tuscan sunset
The mystical Etruscan town of Cortona, the home of Under The Tuscan Sun movie and one of the very special spiritual towns in the world. Time to see the Under The Tuscan Sun Villa, Fortress and town.
Assisi - the St Francis Basilica
The basilica of San Francesco is located in Assisi, it is the place that since 1230 preserves and guards the mortal remains of the seraphic saint. Wanted by Pope Gregory IX as specializing ecclesia, it was awarded by the same Pontiff the title of Caput et Mater of the Minorite Order and contextually entrusted in perpetuity to the same friars.
In the complex history that marked the evolution of the Order, the basilica (and the adjoining Sacred Convent) was always guarded by the so-called "community friars", the group that later went on to establish the Order of Conventual Friars Minor.
At the sepulchral church of the Basilica where the altar was erected on the tomb of the Saint, on 19 November 1585, the Franciscan Pope Sixtus V, with the bull Supernae dispositions, established the Arciconfraternita dei Cordigeri.