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Dominating the Umbrian countryside from its 494-m (1,600-ft) hill, Perugia is emphatically more secular and more profane than its mystical Umbrian neighbor Assisi.
Landlocked Umbria’s rich green countryside surrounds a golden triangle of historic cities, the Assisi of St. Francis, the noble university hillside town of Perugia, and the medieval mountain post of Gubbio.
But Assisi’s frescoes of the saint’s life, painted by Cimabue and disciples of Giotto (which barely survived the severe earthquake of 1997), proved an immensely effective act of artistic propaganda against the prevalent libertinism and heresy.
After two centuries of religious heresy, the Church needed a spiritual renewal, finding the perfect ally in Francis of Assisi (1182–1226), pious without being troublesomely militant.
It is thought that Saint Francis of Assisi is the saint responsible for much of the veneration of the infant Jesus, and the custom of creating nativity scenes or monuments to the birth of Christ has been going on for hundreds of years.