During World War II, which Italian town was saved from devastation by a German commander? Assisi. The German occupying forces in Italy, had placed Werhmacht commander, Colonel Valentin Müller, a devout Catholic…
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During World War II in Assisi, the Bishop of Assisi sometimes had to double as a stonemason; that is, when it was time to hide the valuables, torahs, and documents of the…
Ironically, just steps away from Assisi’s Museo della Memoria, 1943-1944 recounting the story of the salvation of Jewish refugees in Assisi in World War II – you’ll pass the entrance to one of…
What did a world-champion Tuscan cyclist have in common with two Assisi printers? A couple of things: all three have been recognized as Righteous Among Nations by Yad Vashem in Israel. And…
I first met Don Aldo Brunacci in 1975 shortly after Pino and I moved into our Assisi countryside farmhouse. At that time, I had started teaching English to children – as a…
When I think about Graziella Viterbi, I always remember that bright twinkle in her eye, that spark. That spark was there when she met Pope Francis in 2016 during his Assisi visit,…
Did you know that the 101st edition of the Giro d’Italia (“Italy Tour”) – one of Italy’s Grand Tour cycling races – started in Jerusalem (on May 4, 2018), not in Italy?…
In the 16th -century, Perugia was described not as just one of the loveliest cities not just in Italy but in all of Europe. Perugia was graced with seventy imposing family towers,…
The facade of Perugia’s medieval splendido city hall, Palazzo dei Priori is graced by steps fanning out that lead up to the Sala dei Notari (Notaries Hall). Sala Notari Entrance – Photo Anne Robichaud…
Perugia’s most prestigious medieval guildhall? Certainly that of the Nobile Collegio della Mercanzia (the Noble Merchants Guild), already active in the early 13th-century at the peak of the independence of Perugia’s comuni (city-states). Il Nobile…