Assisi & Gubbio, Umbria

Above: illegal pic. of the church St Francis built originally. The large building was built around the little one.

Statue of St Francis with live doves that we heard are always on this statue.

Views of Assisi from the drive up

Views as we were walking up

Some of the awesome people in our group

I don't remember the name of this church but it's where St Francis is buried

middle courtyard from the 2nd story of the church

This man was singing and preaching in the courtyard. He never wears shoes and after he preaches some of the people around walk up and give him food. He preached about how the Catholic church should get back to a poorer way of living. St Francis is the saint of poverty, etc.

 

View and carousel near the church of St Clare (sp?)

Our friends,Anna and Alaina carried me around a little bit. Quite comical..

Spectacular views from Rocca Maggiore, a castle above Assisi

Anna Juilann and Alaina

View of St Francis's church from the castle

Our friend Herb helping me get a view of the description of what we were looking at inside the castle

We were all confused by this exhibit..hmmm...

Pathway from one tower to the other. Above: inside  Below: outiside path on the roof

Picture below: time of praise and worship in the hotel breakfast room. An amazing time!!

Gubbio: above-street market  below: view of castles,etc. in the hills

Austin (older brother of Anna and Alaina) Aaron and Race

Our friend Steve :-) 

I have a 'thing' for taking pictures of people taking pictures and of doors, really cool doors of course!

View of a church in Gubbio. Below: Steve giving us a perspective of the size of this door. Wow!!

A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure and privilege to join a group of friends from church to accompany them to Assisi and Gubbio; 2 towns north of Rome a bit.  An Italian family organized the adventure so we went along for the ride.  We stayed in Assisi for 2 nights and I think our group took up half of the hotel!   There were 7 families in our group.  It was so fun to spend time with everyone and get to know all of them a little better.  One night, almost everyone came to our room to play UNO.  It was such a blast! I wish I had a picture or a video of that time. Probably one of the best memories we took with us.
   Assisi is full of churches and we saw most of them(only got a few 'illegal' inside shots :-).  Gubbio is known for its medieval castles and buildings.  It was really neat to see all of them.  It was fun to walk around the towns and take in the sites.