San Paolo Apostolo

San Paolo Apostolo is a modern church built between 2001 and 2009, on the location of an old church destroyed by the 1997 earthquake in the area. Designed by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, it owes its cubic form to a description of the New Jerusalem in the book of Revelation, suggesting that the holy city has an equal length and breadth.

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Foligno Cathedral

Foligno Cathedral is an 11th-century religious building, radically rebuilt in the 18th century. The cathedral, built on the site of an earlier basilica, is dedicated to the town's patron saint, the martyr Felician of Foligno, who was buried here in 251 AD. The most important restorations were carried out in the 18th century by Luigi Vanvitelli and his pupil Giuseppe Piermarini, who gave the interior of the cathedral its Baroque and Neoclassical style. The cathedral was restored in 1904.

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Assisi Cathedral

The Cathedral of Assisi or Saint-Rufin Cathedral was built between 1140 and 1571. This place of worship in Romanesque and Baroque style is particularly imposing for the small medieval town of Assisi. It is dedicated to Saint Rufin (the first bishop of the city and a martyr in the 2nd century), whose relics are venerated in a sarcophagus under the high altar.

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Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

The Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi is divided into two parts: one is known as the "lower church", built in the rock on one side of Mount Subiaso between 1228 and 1230, and the other as the "upper church", built above it between 1230 and 1253, in the Gothic style. The bell tower is in Romanesque style. The two churches, united under the same name of "basilica", have been listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 2000. The body of St. Francis was secretly transferred to the crypt in 1230 and was so well hidden that it was only rediscovered in 1818.