Our guide will find you next to the Basilica information office located in the Lower Basilica square. Please note that Sundays and holidays explanation of the Basilica from outside and free entry. The visit will begin by visiting the tomb of San Francisco. His mortal remains have rested here for 800 years. In the Lower Basilica the painted decorations speak of the Franciscan virtues, of the example of Francis in his life as the man Christ. In the Upper Basilica we will focus on the life of the Saint and his relationship with the time in which he lived and with the personalities he met such as Popes and nobles, also with the simple people who surrounded him. More than 5000 square metres of frescoes painted by Giotto, Cimabue, Simone Martini and Pietro Lorenzetti.