Getting Medieval on Your Assisi

This post is backwards because my family, Eugenio, and I actually went to the Medieval city of Assisi before we went to Madrid. Anyhow, we all took a day trip to this beautiful city which is most known for being the home of St. Francis, one of the patron saints of Italy. Many of you may have heard of St. Francis through St. Francis House Soup Kitchens in the States. Assisi is a beautiful city which has architecture which is very different from that of Rome. There are at least 5 different churches, the two main ones being Santa Clara (other patron saint of Italy) and St. Francesco. Everywhere in the city, you see many of the characteristic signs of St. Francis, the dove and the Tau symbol. Both come to represent the love and peace which Christianity stands for. I bought a wood Tau cross, which also comes to resemble the typical Christian cross, with my name inscribed into it. The church of St. Francis also had probably the coolest nativity scene I had ever seen. For Christmas, the figures in the scene (shown below) are replaced by real people. Here are a few more pictures below: