Assisi

Today we visited Assisi, home of Saint Francis and Saint Clare. Assisi is a stunning hillside town that can be seen from miles away. It's exciting to approach on the drive up the mountain with the huge Church of San Francis dominating the landscape. Assisi is another medieval village, complete with castle and watchtowers. It has three sets of city gates as the town expanded over the years. In both our homebase of Todi and in Assisi, it's difficult to process how old the buildings really are. I'm simply unable to explain what it's like to know that you're touching and walking on surfaces from the middle ages.

The town of Assisi was busy but not overly crowded. The Church of Saint Clare is on one end of town and the Church of Saint Francis is all the way on the far end of town. We visited both and visited the remains of the saints entombed in their resprective churches.

We saw many priests, nuns, and pilgrims. We ate and drank sparingly, so no food photos for today. Maybe tomorrow we'll be able to report on a sumptuous dinner.