Assisi Travel Forum

Hello everyone,

I want to take my group of 24 people to St. Marys of the Angels. We are staying in the old part of Assisi, specifically Hotel LaRocca (anyone heard of it?). Does anyone know how we can get there without renting a bus?

Thanks!
Mary

I stayed at Hotel La Rocca long ago, and it was a nice enough place, suited for groups. It's on the north end of the upper town, overlooking a deep valley - I've got a photo of it around here someplace (as I slowly convert film to digital).

La Rocca is about a kilometer from the main Basilica, a nice enough walk. Note that if you go in the opposite direction, you'll come across a neighborhood whose streets are in an oval shape - that's the footprint of a Roman amphitheater that no longer exists - but the outlines of the shape still do.

OK, Saint Mary of the Angels is way the heck out of town - 5 kms? 9 kms? I forget. Certainly, the simplest method to get there would be by a bus you hire - there is a piazza not far from La Rocca that is accessible to buses, so you wouldn't have far to walk (note that much of upper Assisi is not accessible to buses or even cars belonging to non-residents). I am sure that you can take city buses, but I don't have a clue which ones.

Hmmmn, any of your 24 members of Rotary International? If so, then see http://www.rotaryumbria.org/assisi/ and send an email to your fellow Rotarians in Assisi and ask them(!).

I have looked at some Assisi sites, including the one for the local bus company (all in Italian), but I haven't gotten it to compute the trip yet. I imagine that you will need to get your group to the Piazza Matteotti bus station in Assisi, then take a bus from there to Santa Maria Degli Angeli. You might look at http://www.assisionline.com/buspgus.html (in English) to see if I missed something...

Bill

The public bus route C will take you from the main square in the old town to the Railway Station. From there, Santa Maria degli Angeli is a short walk. An extra 24 people on the bus might get a bit crowded, but you could try early in the morning. The basilica opens about 7 am.
Jim