Basilica of St Francis, Assisi, Italy: Where to see the most astonishing frescoes?

By Ute Junker
May 23 2015 - 12:15am

The only way to really understand a revolution is to live through it. Standing outside, you can see how things have changed – how, say, the French Revolution swept away the monarchy and replaced it with a republic – but you cannot understand how it felt to live in a city where tumbrels regularly rattled through the streets, taking aristocrats to the guillotine.

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