Portico of Monte Frumentario

Medieval Hospital - 1267

This is one of the historic buildings you pass when walking down Via San Francesco. Whilst you might not go out of your way to see it, you will walk right past on the way from Piazza Comune to the Ba...

Beautiful

There are only so many buildings to which one can ascribe 4 and 5 stars. This is lovely but average by the standards set by peers.

FORMER OSPEDALE DELLA MISERICORDIA

This building was constructed in 1267 as one of the first public hospitals in Italy. The Monte Frumentario, founded by Cardinal Barberini, occupied this building starting in 1746. Then in 1877 it was ...

PALAZZO MONTE FRUMENTARIO

This building dates to the late 13th century and was originally a hospital and then later a depository for the city’s food supply. It later became like a bank, loaning wheat and other types of product...

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Original Text

On the street of St. Francis, and in Assisi everything is connected with his name, there is this beautiful palace built as a hospital in the 13th century.Further here the monks were distributed food, and in the 16th century the cardinal of the ...