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What It Was Like On My First Trip To Assisi, Italy: Home of Saint Francis

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On my very first trip to Italy, we spent a day in Assisi, Italy:  The Home of Saint Francis and the Basilica of Saint Francis.... This is the story of my trip!  Please enjoy!  (Video Half Way Down Below) Assisi, Italy. The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Italy 1.  How We Actually Got To Assisi, Italy. This all started with the first trip I took to Italy.  If you are new to the blog...then check out the very first blog post here .  ---Or just hang on for the rest of the trip! We were staying in the little hill top town of Ripatransone, Italy which in in the Le Marche region... this is actually important because the city of Assisi is actually in Umbria Region which is basically next door .  --So it is relatively close when sight seeing in Italy. We had a spend days to kill because we were on tour in Italy and the next performance wasn't until a week later... Our tour guide/choir leader/professor laid out the entire tour a...