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Religione e spiritualità

Religion und spiritualität

Religious and spiritual points of interest in Umbria

Umbria is a region known historically as the land related to religion and spirituality,the phenomenon dates back to ancient times when Christianity was not yet common in our country, and in many parts of the Umbria, thriving intellectual centers of worship and related pagan religions of various kinds.

Just think of places like Todi, where he worshiped the God Mars or Gubbio (Iguvium), where in pre-Roman times the ancient Umbrians celebrate religious ceremonies in honor of the city-state.

With the advent of Christianity in Umbria is crucial that became the center of Christian spirituality and gave birth to many saints and important figures like St. Francis, St. Clare, St. Valentine, St. Scholastica and St. Rita of Cascia.

Over time, the Umbria has become the cradle of spiritual and devotional movements that have helped to build places of celebration of great importance, including churches, monasteries and convents.

Bella Umbria offers the greatest places of religious and spiritual in Umbria.

  1. Saint Anthony the Abbot

    Cascia (PG), Norcia (PG),...
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    Saint Anthony the Abbot (Coma, Qumans 250/251 - desert of the Thebaid January 17th, 356/357) is the patron Saint of the pets, livestock, of the farmer and related and/or derivatives work (such as...
  2. Saint Fermina (Firmina)

    Amelia (TR)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    Saint Fermina (or Saint Firmina, is equivalent) is the Patron Saint of the Sailors, Amelia and Civitavecchia. In Amelia is celebrated on November 24th each year.Fermina was born in Rome in...
  3. St. Rita von Cascia

    Cascia (PG)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    St. Rita of Cascia, one of the most venerated and invoked Saint by practicing Catholics, was born from Antonio Lotti and Amata Ferri, two "pacieri di Cristo” (ancestors of the modern “civil...
  4. Kirche Santa Maria Nuova

    Gubbio (PG)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    The Church of Santa Maria Nuova has the characteristic style of the cistercense architecture prevailing in the ecclesiastical buildings of XIII century Gubbio. The facade is simple, but...
  5. Abbey des Vallingegno

    Gubbio (PG)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    Also the abbey church of Vallingegno could have pagan origins, we are talking about a small temple dedicated to the God Genio (Genius), to whom we can refer some rock fragments, used again as...
  6. San Valentine: geschichte und legende

    Terni
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    Saint Valentine, Terni's first Bishop, died in 273 on the orders of the Roman prefect Placidus Furius during the persecutions ordered by the emperor Aurelius.The history and the legendHis life, given...
  7. Cappella del Transito

    Assisi (PG)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    The Chapel of the Transit is nowadays located of the right part of the apse of the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, not far away from the church of the Porziuncola. The small structure, in...
  8. Basilika des St. Benedict

    Gualdo Tadino (PG)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    The cathedral of St. Benedict is the most important church in Gualdo Tadino, and it dominates the main square, with its rose-window, which for long time has been the symbol of the town. In 1875...
  9. Eremitage von San Pietro in Vigneto

    Gubbio (PG)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    The convent, after 1336, following the building of a tower and a fortified edifice, could appear more as a fortress rather than a religious settlement.In the same period is added to the church, first...
  10. Kirche St. Damiano

    Assisi (PG)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    The church of San Damiano does not have a great importance under the artistic point of view, especially if you compare it with some of the basilicas of Assisi, however it is a place to which are...
  11. Dom von Terni (Dom Santa Maria Assunta)

    Terni
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    From the main road two streets are leading almost directly to the square of the Terni Cathedral: one remembers the name of Lodovico Aminale from Terni, "the courageous soldier who, at the tournament...
  12. Kirche St. Peter

    Assisi (PG)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    The first documents about the church of St. Peter are dating back to the last years of the 10th century; however it is given that the actual aspect is the results of a large restructuring work...
  13. Kirche von St. Francis

    Gualdo Tadino (PG)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    The St. Francis church was built between the XII-XIV century in gothic style, with the door in a three-lobe arc and relized in one single nave with span and cross-vault.The curch reminds the ones...
  14. Foligno Kathedrale - Kathedrale von San Feliciano

    Foligno (PG)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    The Foligno Cathedral (or Cathedral of San Feliciano), built in the Romanic style during the 12th century, is the city's most important artistic monument; its main facade boasts multiple arches and...
  15. Portiunkula

    Assisi (PG)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    Although one can find references to the area of the Porziuncola in the documents of the city of Assisi dating back to more or less the year one thousand, it is only with the life of Saint Francesco...
  16. Kirche San Domenico

    Narni (TR)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    The St. Domenico Church in Narni, originally the church of St. Maria Maggiore, it is now a place for exhibitions, seat of the municipal library and the historic archives. It has a high tower dating...
  17. Kirche des Caprignone

    Gubbio (PG)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    From the ruins of a church dating back to the end of the 11th century and a small pagan temple the Franciscans build a small convent and their temple.Today the church remains, while from the few...
  18. Dom von Orvieto

    Orvieto (TR)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    The work for Orvieto Cathedral construction started in 1263 under the pontificate of Urbano IV. The Pope wanted to consecrate in this way the so-called "miracolo del sangue": during a Mass...
  19. Basilika Franziskus von Assisi

    Assisi (PG)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    The church of St. Francis of Assisi rises up today in the place where the Saint had chosen to be buried, in the area of Assisi which was famous in the Middle Ages as the "hill of hell", or better...
  20. Kirche St. Pudenziana

    Narni (TR)
    Typologie: Religione e Spiritualità 
    The church of  Santa Pudenziana of Narni, together with the church of San Michele Archangel in Schifanoia, represents one of the most interesting Romanic edifices of the area of Narni.The...
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