San Francesco 800
This is the early life of Francis of Assisi, in the two decades before he founded a religious order. The son of a wealthy Assisi cloth merchant became a soldier, a prisoner of war in Perugia, and finally, in a public square, the man who returned to his father every coin and garment he owned.
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Lake Como in autumn
Foliage on the Triangolo Lariano, villas down to their last weeks and lake traffic thinning toward the off season, from late September through the first weeks of November.
San Francesco 800
2026, the year of Francis: a guide to his 800th anniversary
Eight centuries after his death, the institutions, events and open questions behind Italy's yearlong commemoration of Francis of Assisi.
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Inside the Parco di Monza, a nineteenth century royal estate has shared its silence with the Autodromo Nazionale for more than a century.
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