PART XI: ASSISI (8/20)

Today we took a day trip to Assisi, a wonderful little town that you might recognize as being the home of St. Francis, the founder of the Franciscan brotherhood of Catholic monks. A three hour train got us to the train station about four kilometers outside of the old city.

Assisi from afar as we walked from the train station.

 

 All of the streets through Assisi looked like these above although some were even narrower. The streets were incredibly crowded with buildings and were incredibly fun to explore. The entire city seemed a bit like it was clinging to the hillside and only stayed up because there was a building below every building to build on top of.

This spiral staircase was ridiculous. It probably went about 40 or 50 meters from top to bottom.