Situata nel cuore dell’Umbria, tra Perugia e Assisi, Bastia deve le sue origini all’epoca romana, ma visse il periodo di maggior splendore nel vivo nel corso dell’undicesimo secolo, quando divenne un importante castello. Il suo nome, Bastia, deriva proprio dalle imponenti mura della città e dai numerosi bastioni di cui era dotato il suo castello.

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Uno dei luoghi più suggestivi della cittadina è senza dubbio la Rocca Baglionesca, una costruzione fortificata edificata nel corso del Quattrocento per essere utilizzata come residenza da parte della famiglia Baglioni, che governava la città. Nel corso del Seicento, quando i Baglioni avevano perso il potere, il monumento fu adibito a monastero benedettino femminile. All’interno della Rocca è possibile ammirare la Chiesa di Sant’Anna del XVIII secolo, realizzata con il contributo di Artemisia Baldeschi, contessa di Perugia.

Uno dei più importanti luoghi di culto è la trecentesca Chiesa di Santa Croce, che si affaccia su Piazza Mazzini, caratterizzata dalla facciata di calcare bianco e rosa tipico del Subasio, con una navata in stile gotico che conserva al suo interno numerosi affreschi e opere d’arte. La Chiesa di Sant’Angelo è più antica della città. Gravemente danneggiata dal terremoto del 1997 e, una volta terminate le operazioni di recupero, sarà utilizzata come auditorium comunale. Da vedere inoltre la chiesa di San Rocco e quella di San Paolo delle Abbadesse, dove nel 1212 si rifugiò santa Chiara per sfuggire ai genitori.

Altri due monumenti che è consigliabile visitare nel borgo umbro sono il ponte sul fiume Chiascio, corso d’acqua sul quale si è sviluppata la città, e il monumento eretto in memoria di Colomba Antonietti, giovane ragazza di Bastia Umbra che in epoca risorgimentale sacrificò la sua vita per combattere al fianco della Repubblica italiana.

Cosa fare a Bastia Umbra

Cosa fare a Bastia Umbra secondo la nostra mini-guida? Posta nella pianura dominata dal Monte Subasio, Bastia Umbra è oggi un importante centro economico per la zona di Assisi, grazie anche all’importante centro fieristico regionale Umbriafiere. L’ospitalità, la storia, la cultura, i patrimoni artistici e paesaggistici dell’Umbria sono importanti fattori positivi che contribuiscono al successo del polo espositivo, che opera in un contesto adeguato a ospitare eventi di carattere nazionale e internazionale.

A circa 10 km di distanza, si raggiungono le Terme Francescane Village. Grazie alle proprietà chimiche delle acque, si possono curare malattie otorinolaringoiatriche, cardiovascolari, ginecologiche, reumatiche e dermatologiche. Possibilità di praticare balneoterapia nelle piscine o nelle vasche singole.

Gli ospiti di Bastia Umbra hanno la possibilità di effettuare escursioni alla ricerca di siti archeologici, itinerari enogastronomici, cicloturistici, storico-artistici e naturalistici. Tra i tour più classici da compiere: la via Flaminia, Eugubino – Alta Valle del Tevere, Torrentismo nella Forra di Pago, le Fosse in Valnerina e l’escursione speleologica alla Risorgenza Solenne a Le Cese di Spoleto.

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Cosa Mangiare a Bastia Umbra

Vi state chiedendo cosa mangiare a Bastia Umbra? Le ricette tradizionali umbre incorporano gli ingredienti e i sapori di questo splendido angolo di Italia. Assaggiate gli gnocchi al ragù d’agnello, un piatto tipico della cucina contadina, fatta di pietanze semplici ma sostanziose, e il piccione arrosto ripieno o la Palomba alla Ghiotta, un colombaccio arrostito allo spiedo e condito con una salsa all’acciuga, … e non ve ne pentirete!

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La Ciaramicola è un dolce tradizionale che si prepara durante la settimana di Pasqua. All’impasto tipico del torcolo si aggiunge anche dell’alchermes, che produce il caratteristico colore purpureo delle fette. Il dolce viene normalmente ricoperto da una meringa dolce, cosparsa di sferette argentee e bastoncini colorati di zucchero.

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Just next the magnificent Basilica of St. Francis, you can visit also Bosco di San Francesco (St. Francis’ Wood), an amazing example of Italian rural landscape of 64 acres and over 800 years of history running through woodland and cultivated fields , olive groves and glades .
You enter Bosco di San Francesco through a door located in the wall in front of the Basilica. Once in the Forest – the first part belongs to the Franciscan friars – take a look at the walls, which is a long section of the perimeter of the city walls built in Roman times, in the second/ first century BC, and expanded in XIII / XIV century to cope with the increasing population of Assisi.

Proceeding along the path of the Wood you will leave the bridge of the Gauls on the left. Continuing the journey towards the valley floor, you can see the plain profiles of some buildings. These are the remains of a complex architectural system of  religious and rural nature in origin including a hospital, a Benedictine monastery and a church, and adjacent a mill belonging to the convent .

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A wooden walkway through the remains of the original walls , once exceeded is the gateway to the ancient Hospitalis Pontis Gallorum ( Hospital del Ponte dei Galli ), of which survives part of the outer limestone Subasio on the long side of the east and on the adjacent side to the south.  Traces of possible niches and buttresses whose function has not yet been identified are still visible. From the analysis of the traces walls, partially buried, there were no points of contact consistent with the outer wall and is therefore very likely that the latter was separated from the buildings inside the perimeter. Active since 1250 and until the second half of the fourteenth century , the hospital passed , around the turn of the century, from the management of the friars to that of the Benedictine nuns, both still under the bishop authority.

If you continue the path you will arrive to the Bosco di San Francesco’s Visitor Center, created by the FAI within the canonical Benedictine . From here you can access the small Church of Santa Croce, originally from the mid-thirteenth century and later changed, during the seventeenth century . Holy Cross can be ascribed to the so-called ” chapels ” , places of worship very small , with a minor role compared to the churches, destined to communities in the country.

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Just next the magnificent Basilica of St. Francis, you can visit also Bosco di San Francesco (St. Francis’ Wood), an amazing example of Italian rural landscape of 64 acres and over 800 years of history running through woodland and cultivated fields , olive groves and glades .
You enter Bosco di San Francesco through a door located in the wall in front of the Basilica. Once in the Forest – the first part belongs to the Franciscan friars – take a look at the walls, which is a long section of the perimeter of the city walls built in Roman times, in the second/ first century BC, and expanded in XIII / XIV century to cope with the increasing population of Assisi.

Proceeding along the path of the Wood you will leave the bridge of the Gauls on the left. Continuing the journey towards the valley floor, you can see the plain profiles of some buildings. These are the remains of a complex architectural system of  religious and rural nature in origin including a hospital, a Benedictine monastery and a church, and adjacent a mill belonging to the convent .

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A wooden walkway through the remains of the original walls , once exceeded is the gateway to the ancient Hospitalis Pontis Gallorum ( Hospital del Ponte dei Galli ), of which survives part of the outer limestone Subasio on the long side of the east and on the adjacent side to the south.  Traces of possible niches and buttresses whose function has not yet been identified are still visible. From the analysis of the traces walls, partially buried, there were no points of contact consistent with the outer wall and is therefore very likely that the latter was separated from the buildings inside the perimeter. Active since 1250 and until the second half of the fourteenth century , the hospital passed , around the turn of the century, from the management of the friars to that of the Benedictine nuns, both still under the bishop authority.

If you continue the path you will arrive to the Bosco di San Francesco’s Visitor Center, created by the FAI within the canonical Benedictine . From here you can access the small Church of Santa Croce, originally from the mid-thirteenth century and later changed, during the seventeenth century . Holy Cross can be ascribed to the so-called ” chapels ” , places of worship very small , with a minor role compared to the churches, destined to communities in the country.

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Just next the magnificent Basilica of St. Francis, you can visit also Bosco di San Francesco (St. Francis’ Wood), an amazing example of Italian rural landscape of 64 acres and over 800 years of history running through woodland and cultivated fields , olive groves and glades .
You enter Bosco di San Francesco through a door located in the wall in front of the Basilica. Once in the Forest – the first part belongs to the Franciscan friars – take a look at the walls, which is a long section of the perimeter of the city walls built in Roman times, in the second/ first century BC, and expanded in XIII / XIV century to cope with the increasing population of Assisi.

Proceeding along the path of the Wood you will leave the bridge of the Gauls on the left. Continuing the journey towards the valley floor, you can see the plain profiles of some buildings. These are the remains of a complex architectural system of  religious and rural nature in origin including a hospital, a Benedictine monastery and a church, and adjacent a mill belonging to the convent .

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A wooden walkway through the remains of the original walls , once exceeded is the gateway to the ancient Hospitalis Pontis Gallorum ( Hospital del Ponte dei Galli ), of which survives part of the outer limestone Subasio on the long side of the east and on the adjacent side to the south.  Traces of possible niches and buttresses whose function has not yet been identified are still visible. From the analysis of the traces walls, partially buried, there were no points of contact consistent with the outer wall and is therefore very likely that the latter was separated from the buildings inside the perimeter. Active since 1250 and until the second half of the fourteenth century , the hospital passed , around the turn of the century, from the management of the friars to that of the Benedictine nuns, both still under the bishop authority.

If you continue the path you will arrive to the Bosco di San Francesco’s Visitor Center, created by the FAI within the canonical Benedictine . From here you can access the small Church of Santa Croce, originally from the mid-thirteenth century and later changed, during the seventeenth century . Holy Cross can be ascribed to the so-called ” chapels ” , places of worship very small , with a minor role compared to the churches, destined to communities in the country.

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Just next the magnificent Basilica of St. Francis, you can visit also Bosco di San Francesco (St. Francis’ Wood), an amazing example of Italian rural landscape of 64 acres and over 800 years of history running through woodland and cultivated fields , olive groves and glades .
You enter Bosco di San Francesco through a door located in the wall in front of the Basilica. Once in the Forest – the first part belongs to the Franciscan friars – take a look at the walls, which is a long section of the perimeter of the city walls built in Roman times, in the second/ first century BC, and expanded in XIII / XIV century to cope with the increasing population of Assisi.

Proceeding along the path of the Wood you will leave the bridge of the Gauls on the left. Continuing the journey towards the valley floor, you can see the plain profiles of some buildings. These are the remains of a complex architectural system of  religious and rural nature in origin including a hospital, a Benedictine monastery and a church, and adjacent a mill belonging to the convent .

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A wooden walkway through the remains of the original walls , once exceeded is the gateway to the ancient Hospitalis Pontis Gallorum ( Hospital del Ponte dei Galli ), of which survives part of the outer limestone Subasio on the long side of the east and on the adjacent side to the south.  Traces of possible niches and buttresses whose function has not yet been identified are still visible. From the analysis of the traces walls, partially buried, there were no points of contact consistent with the outer wall and is therefore very likely that the latter was separated from the buildings inside the perimeter. Active since 1250 and until the second half of the fourteenth century , the hospital passed , around the turn of the century, from the management of the friars to that of the Benedictine nuns, both still under the bishop authority.

If you continue the path you will arrive to the Bosco di San Francesco’s Visitor Center, created by the FAI within the canonical Benedictine . From here you can access the small Church of Santa Croce, originally from the mid-thirteenth century and later changed, during the seventeenth century . Holy Cross can be ascribed to the so-called ” chapels ” , places of worship very small , with a minor role compared to the churches, destined to communities in the country.

If you’ve decided to visit Assisi and discover St. Francis’ Wood you should contact now farmhouses near Assisi >> click this link.