Central Italy
Umbria
Province of Perugia

Assisi

Assisi is a small medieval town of about 28,000 people perched on a hill in , the heart of . Famous as the birthplace of St. Francis, Assisi holds religious, historical, and artistic significance.
Tap on a place
to explore it
comune.assisi.pg.it
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Fod, CC BY 2.5 dk.
  • Type: Town with 3,720 residents
  • Description: Italian commune in Umbria
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi and Basilica di Santa Chiara.

Church
Photo: Agmonsnir, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town in the region in , where Saint Francis was born and died.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Basilica of Saint Clare is a church in Assisi, . It is dedicated to and contains the remains of Clare of Assisi, a follower of Francis of Assisi and founder of the Order of Poor Ladies, known today as the Order of Saint Clare.

Church
Photo: Berthold Werner, Public domain.
, dedicated to Saint Rufinus, is a major church in Assisi, Italy. This imposing cathedral, built in the Romanesque style of , is the third church constructed on the same site to house the relics of Bishop Rufinus, who was martyred in the 3rd century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Santa Maria degli Angeli and Rivotorto.

Village
Photo: Fczarnowski, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a frazione of the comune of Assisi in the , , central . It stands at an elevation of 218 metres above sea level.

Village
Photo: Tagooty, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a frazione of the comune of Assisi in the , , central . It stands at an elevation of 211 m above sea level. At the time of the Istat census of 2001 it had 1284 inhabitants.

Village
Photo: Yaroslav Blanter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a frazione of the comune of Assisi in the , , central . It stands at an elevation of 372 metres above sea level. At the time of the Istat census of 2001 it had 494 inhabitants,…

Assisi

Latitude
43.0712° or 43° 4′ 16″ north
Longitude
12.6147° or 12° 36′ 53″ east
Population
3,720
Elevation
424 metres (1,391 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IT ASI
Open location code
8FMJ3JC7+FV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 68507678
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3182722
Wiki­data ID
Q20103
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Assisi from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Assisi” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Assisi”
  • Arabic: “أسيزي”
  • Arabic: “اسيزي”
  • Armenian: “Ասսիզի”
  • Arpitan: “Assise”
  • Aymara: “Assisi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Assisi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Assizi”
  • Basque: “Asis”
  • Bavarian: “Assisi”
  • Belarusian: “Асізі”
  • Belarusian: “Асызі”
  • Breton: “Asiz”
  • Breton: “Assisi”
  • Bulgarian: “Асизи”
  • Catalan: “Assís”
  • Cebuano: “Assisi”
  • Chechen: “Ассизи”
  • Chinese: “Assisi”
  • Chinese: “阿思思”
  • Chinese: “阿西西”
  • Chuvash: “Ассизи”
  • Corsican: “Assisi”
  • Croatian: “Assisi”
  • Czech: “Assisi”
  • Danish: “Assisi”
  • Dutch: “Assisi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسيزى”
  • Esperanto: “Asizo”
  • Estonian: “Assisi”
  • Finnish: “Assisi”
  • French: “Assise”
  • Galician: “Asís”
  • Galician: “Assisi”
  • Georgian: “ასიზი”
  • German: “Assisi”
  • Greek: “Ασίζη”
  • Hebrew: “אסיזי”
  • Hindi: “असीसी”
  • Hungarian: “Assisi”
  • Indonesian: “Assisi”
  • Interlingua: “Assisi”
  • Irish: “Assisi”
  • Italian: “Assisi”
  • Japanese: “アッシジ”
  • Kazakh: “Ассизи”
  • Kirghiz: “Ассизи”
  • Korean: “아시시”
  • Kurdish: “Assisi”
  • Ladin: “Assisi”
  • Latin: “Asisium”
  • Latvian: “Asīze”
  • Lithuanian: “Asyžius”
  • Lombard: “Assisi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Assisi”
  • Macedonian: “Асизи”
  • Malay: “Assisi”
  • Maltese: “Assisi”
  • Mazanderani: “آسسیس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Assisi”
  • Neapolitan: “Assisi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Assisi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Assisi”
  • Norwegian: “Assisi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Assís”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Assise”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Assisi”
  • Persian: “آسیزی”
  • Piemontese: “Assisi”
  • Polish: “Asyż”
  • Portuguese: “Assis”
  • Quechua: “Assisi”
  • Romanian: “Assisi”
  • Russian: “Ассизи”
  • Sardinian: “Assisi”
  • Scots: “Assisi”
  • Serbian: “Асизи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Assisi”
  • Sicilian: “Assisi”
  • Slovak: “Assisi”
  • Slovenian: “Assisi”
  • Spanish: “Asis”
  • Spanish: “Asís”
  • Swahili: “Assisi”
  • Swedish: “Assisi”
  • Tagalog: “Asis”
  • Tagalog: “Assisi”
  • Tamil: “அசிசி”
  • Tatar: “Ассизи”
  • Thai: “อัสซีซี”
  • Turkish: “Assisi”
  • Ukrainian: “Ассізі”
  • Urdu: “آسیزی”
  • Venetian: “Asizi”
  • Venetian: “Sisa”
  • Vietnamese: “Assisi”
  • Vlaams: “Assisi”
  • Volapük: “Assisi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Assisi”
  • Welsh: “Assisi”
  • Western Frisian: “Assisi”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿西西”
  • Yiddish: “אַסיזעס”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿思思”
  • “Assisi”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Assisi”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Valecchie and Casa Tor Giovannetto.

Umbria: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Perugia, Terni, Orvieto, and Gubbio.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Assisi”. Photo: Fod, CC BY 2.5 dk.