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HISTORY
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Assisi, as the rest of the region, was lived by the Umbrians.

Later the town felt the influence of the Etruscans and the Romans and thanks to them we can now admire so much historical beauty as the Minerva temple, the ruins of the forum, the roman walls and the amphytheatre.

After the Roman empire fell, around 545, the town was then occupied by the Goths and later by the Longobardic.

Only during year 1000 Assisi became an independent town and knew an extraordinary development in which the monastic movement gave the biggest contribution (the Benedicts above all).

Assisi antica

S. Francis was born around 1181. He’s for sure the most famous townsman. He became imprisoned and was kept in jail for more than a year during a war against the close town of Perugia.

From 1206 Francis dedicated his life to venerate God, he turned his life in helping people and living as a poor himslef.

Famous is his public renounce to all his goods in front of his father in the square of Assisi.
Assisi - Pazza del comune

In 1228, only 2 years after his death, Francis was proclaimed saint from Pope Gregory  IX

From that moment on the town went under the imperial dominium, to pass, later on, under the pope’s rule, then the lordship of Gian Galeazzo Visconti, the family of Montefeltro, Braccio Fortebraccio and Francesco Sforza.

 This one lasted untill the middle of XVI century, when Assisi and the surrounding areas went back the papal control, conquered by pope Paul III who wanted the famous “Rocca Paolina” in Perugia to be built.

Only during the XIX century Assisi and the other umbrian towns became part of the newly born state of Italy.