C’è un’idea che corre per Assisi nei prossimi mesi, e non ha niente a che vedere con la solita iconografia francescana. Michelangelo Pistoletto — novant’anni, padre dell’Arte Povera, una vita a spostare il confine tra arte e vita reale — ha deciso di fare un gesto radicale: proclamare Papa Francesco “primo santo dell’arte”. Non un…

Anyone who has been to Umbria knows it well: here you cry three times. The first time, when you arrive and are swept away by the beauty of the landscapes, the medieval villages and that authentic stillness that feels as though it comes from another era. The second time, when it is time to leave:…

There is a moment when Assisi stops being the city of Saint Francis and becomes something else entirely. It happens every year on the first Thursday after 1 May, when the bells call everyone to the “Cerimonia delle Corti” and for three days history rewinds. The two Parti On one side the Parte de Sopra,…