Piazza del Comune - Assisi, Italy
Last updated October 12, 2026Piazza del Comune is the main square of Assisi, the hill town in Umbria where Saint Francis was born in 1182, and it sits on the terrace of the old Roman forum, whose original paving lies about 16 feet (5 m) below today's street.
The columns of the Temple of Minerva, built in the 1st century BC, stand on one side of the square, and since 1539 the temple has housed a church, Santa Maria sopra Minerva. Beside it stands the medieval Torre del Popolo.
The town spreads across the lower slopes of Monte Subasio, and in 2000 Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and other Franciscan sites became a UNESCO World Heritage Site, famous for frescoes by Giotto and Cimabue.
Did You Know? When the German poet Goethe visited in 1786, he called the Temple of Minerva the first ancient building in good condition he had ever seen.
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location_on Piazza del Comune, Assisi, Perugia, Umbria, Italy
