Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli
Assisi, Italy
Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.
The Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels is a papal minor basilica on the plain at the foot of the hill of Assisi, Italy, in the frazione of Santa Maria degli Angeli. Begun in 1569 to designs by Galeazzo Alessi and completed in 1679, it encloses the 9th-century Porziuncola, the most sacred place of the Franciscans, where Francis of Assisi renounced the world and began the Franciscan movement.
Architect
Movement
- Built
- Type
- church building, minor basilica, shrine
- Heritage
- part of UNESCO World Heritage Site, Italian national heritage
- Place
- Assisi, Italy
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