Art and Culture

Where art meets gentle hills, where frescoes painted more than six-hundred years ago meet the gastronomic flavours typical of Italian culture: this is the City of Montefalco. This sunny hill has welcomed painters and poets, saints and politicians: Benozzo Gozzoli, an early Renaissance Florentine painter, illustrated the life of Saint Francis of Assisi in Montefalco, creating a fresco cycle that acted as a school for painting to come. Herman Hesse walked through the town's characteristic streets, looking for a detail to stop in time. Young virgins devoted themselves to the Lord, cloistered in the many convents in the area, like Santa Chiara della Croce. And a powerful twentieth-century unionist, Bruno Buozzi, was confined here in spite of himself in 1942. And ideas and lives have intertwined for centuries within the city walls, inspiring some, calming others, but always seeking to create culture.