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Basilica di San Francesco (
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), Assisi
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Offering a heady mix of scenery, art, history and religion, the Santuario della Verna
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in eastern Tuscany and the hilltop town of Assisi (
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)
in neighbouring
Umbria are two of the most important Christian pilgrimage sites in the world. Visit the
windswept monastery in the Casentino where St Francis is said to have received the stig-
mata, and then move on to his birthplace, where Giotto's famous fresco series in the upper
church stuns every beholder with its beauty and narrative power.
