Let's go from Assisi towards Saint Mary of the Angels: suddenly we'll see this Basilica standing out impressively against the countryside of Umbria.

This Basilica, built during the Renaissance, protects and encloses the ancient and rural Porziuncola Chapel (whose origins are Benedictine) where Saint Francis founded the Franciscan Order in 1208; received Saint Clare in 1212; and died on the October 4th , 1226.

After the earthquake of the 1997, the Basilica was partially restructured.

The Basilica is normally open to the visit with the following timetable:

Saint Mass - labor day	hours 7:00 - 8:00 - 9:00 - 11:00 - 17:00
Saint Mass - holiday	hours 6:00 - 7:00 - 8:00 - 9:00 - 10:00 - 11:30 - 17:00 - 18:00
Lodi	From monday to saturday - hour 6:30
Adorazione Eucaristica	From monday to saturday - hours 15:30 - 17:30
Vespro	hours 19:00
Complete	Summer - hour 22:45
Rosario e processione aux flambeaux	every saturady - hour 21:15