Holiday in Umbria accommodations
Holiday in Umbria accommodations Farmhouse Casale La Mora Assisi. Assisi accommodations. Generality
Tourist and industrial center in the province of Perugia, 26 kms to ESE of the chief town, to 424 ms s.m. on the slope nordoccidentale of the Subasio (1290 ms) mountain. The inhabited area, that preserves in the urbanistic structure with steep and tortuous streets and in the aspect of its buildings the native suggestive medieval imprint, prepares him to terraces and you/he/she is overhung by the picturesque ruins of the fortress; on the spur nordoccidentale, to the extremity of the inhabited area it is the understanding monumental complex the convent and the two churches devoted Francis to san. Common of 186,84 km2s with 25.531ab.; the industry is active in the sectors to feed, of the plastic subjects and of the attire; discreet importance also has the agriculture (olivo, grapevine, cereals, forages), but the principal economic resource is the tourism (pilgrimages), that favors the local craftsmanship of the embroideries and the artistic ceramics and the commerce of religious articles. The city is probably Episcopalian center from the sec. III, surely from halves the sec. YOU. You/he/she has seriously been damaged by the earthquake of September 1997.
History
Ancient city umbra that the Romans, around 339 to. C., they turned into the town hall with the name of Asisium. Bitterly contended by Goths and Byzantines, it suffered a destruction to work of Totila in 545; it passed then to the Longobardis that incorporated her/it to the Dukedom of Spoleto. Ordered him free Commune in the sec. XII, faced hard wars with Perugia (the first one would go up again to 1054), that had already subdued the whole small cities of the outskirts. The argument among the two cities umbre reserved to Assisi dramatic experiences (the 1321 looting remembers particularly him) so much that preferred to also give spontaneously him to the cardinal Albornoz to free from the oppression perugina in 1367.
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