Top Assisi Art Tours

Discover the Basilica of Saint Francis on this self-guided audio tour, exploring Giotto's painted masterpiece of medieval Assisi. Follow the saint's life through frescoes, symbolism, and sacred storytelling across both levels of the basilica. Highlights: * Follow the 28-fresco cycle of Saint Francis's life in the Upper Basilica * See the Crucifix of San Damiano, Sermon to the Birds, and Stigmata at La Verna * Descend into the Lower Basilica's darker, contemplative atmosphere * View the vault's allegories of Poverty, Chastity, Obedience, and Saint Francis in Glory * Explore Christ's childhood scenes in the right transept * End in the Chapel of Mary Magdalene, a mirror of spiritual transformation Learn how Giotto's workshop transformed sacred history into vivid human emotion through gesture, architecture, and color, in one of medieval Europe's greatest painted environments.