Scenes from Assisi is a gallery of images and 360 photos that bring you the beautiful scenery from one of the prettiest cities in Italy, and the home town of Saint Francis.
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Convents & Monasteries – Cortona
Today’s Cortona is a foreign-wedding destination, college town, Etruscan site, and expat haven. Visitor lodging is abundant – including some convents and monasteries in Cortona.
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Many convents and monasteries in Florence offer hospitality within striking distance of the Renaissance city’s historic center.
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Assisi, being the home city of Saint Francis, is probably second only to Rome and the Vatican in terms of the density of religious institutions and structures in Italy. Convents & monasteries in Assisi abound to accommodate its pilgrims and visitors.
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You don’t have to be Catholic, Christian, or religious to stay at an Italian convent or monastery. Monks, friars, nuns – have been welcoming and providing simple hospitality to men, women, and families whether they are pilgrims or just regular travelers, for centuries.
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These are the travel tools and resources I have found useful during my solo travels, travels with my family, or with my friends. I will continue to update this page to share information about new tools that may be useful for you own travels.
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Take this 2-mile walk to Piazzale Michelangelo and Abbazia di San Miniato al Monte. Watch the sunset over sweeping views of the Florence skyline – the city of the Renaissance.
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Restaurants aren’t the only places you can satisfy your gustatory longing for Italian cuisine. Town markets are a prime location for great food finds. Rome, Florence, and Turin have the Central Market or Mercato Centrale where you can find lots of gastronomic surprises akin to discovering a town’s street food.
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Dining at a restaurant in Italy can be daunting when you are handed a long menu with several sections in Italian, like antipasti, primi piatti, secondi piatti, contorni, dolci. What to make of it? Here’s how to navigate the Italian restaurant menu.
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Thanks to Starbucks, Americans have been drinking Caffè Latte since 1984. But our coffee drinking practices do not translate well into the – er, snobbish – Italian coffee culture.
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