View from Rocca Maggiore in southeastern direction. Assisi was built on the lower northwestern slope of Monte Subasio (1290 m) and is well known as the place of birth and death of Francis of Assisi. But the site had been inhabited long before, as there are still some remnants of an ancient Roman settlement.

Keywords

christianity, cultural landscape, lightscape, mirror of the past, religious place, townscape, Zonobiome IV

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Thursday 29 March 2012 by Martin Mergili in Europe / Italy (4946 visits)