Editing Assisi (section)

{{Short description|Town and administrative division in Italy}}
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{{Infobox Italian comune
| name                  = Assisi 
| native_name           = Ascesi
| image_skyline         = AssisiDec122023 03.jpg
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| image_caption         = Assisi
| image_flag            = Flag of Assisi.svg
| image_shield          = Assisi-Stemma.svg
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| pushpin_map           = Italy Umbria#Italy#Europe
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| coordinates           = {{coord|43|04|33|N|12|37|03|E|display=inline}}
| coordinates_footnotes = 
| region                = [[Umbria]]
| province              = [[Province of Perugia|Perugia]] (PG)
| frazioni              = See [[#Frazioni|list]]
| mayor_party           = [[Democratic Party (Italy)|PD]]
| mayor                 = Valter Stoppini
| area_footnotes        = 
| area_total_km2        = 186.8
| population_total      = 27862
| population_as_of      = 1 January 2022
| population_footnotes = <ref>{{cite web |url=https://demo.istat.it/app/?i=POS&l=en |title=Resident population |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=demo |publisher=Istituto Nazionale di Statistica |access-date=10 November 2022}}</ref>
| population_demonym    = Assisiani/Assisiati
| elevation_footnotes   = 
| elevation_m           = 424
| elevation_min_m       = 
| elevation_max_m       = 
| saint                 = [[Rufinus of Assisi|St. Rufinus of Assisi]]
| day                   = 12 August
| postal_code           = 06081
| area_code             = 075
| website               = {{official URL}}
| footnotes             = 
  {{Infobox UNESCO World Heritage Site
  |child = yes
  |Official_name = Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco and Other Franciscan Sites
  |ID = 990
  |Year = 2000
  |Criteria = Cultural: i, ii, iii, iv, vi
  |Area = 14,563.25 ha
  |Buffer_zone = 4,086.7 ha 
  |Includes = [[San Damiano, Assisi|San Damiano]], [[Eremo delle Carceri]], [[Rivotorto#Monuments and places of interest|Santuario di Rivotorto]], [[Papal Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels in Assisi|Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli]] and [[Palazzo del Capitano del Perdono]]
  }}
}}
'''Assisi''' ({{IPAc-en|ə|ˈ|s|iː|s|i}},<ref>{{Cite dictionary |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/Assisi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322182243/https://www.lexico.com/definition/assisi |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-03-22 |title=Assisi |dictionary=[[Lexico]] UK English Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> <small>also</small> {{IPAc-en|US|-|iː|z|i|,_|ə|ˈ|s|ɪ|s|i|,_|-|ɪ|z|i}};<ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|Assisi|access-date=31 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/assisi|title=Assisi|work=[[Collins English Dictionary]]|publisher=[[HarperCollins]]|access-date=31 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster|Assisi|access-date=31 May 2019}}</ref> {{IPA|it|asˈsiːzi|lang}}; from {{langx|la|Asisium}}; [[Central Italian]]: ''Ascesi'') is a town and [[communes of Italy|commune]] of Italy in the [[Province of Perugia]] in the [[Umbria region]], on the western flank of [[Monte Subasio]].

It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet [[Propertius]], born around 50–45 BC. It is the birthplace of [[Francis of Assisi|St. Francis]], who founded the [[Order of Friars Minor]] in that town in 1208, and of St. [[Clare of Assisi]] (''Chiara d'Offreducci''), who, with St. Francis, founded the Order of Poor Ladies, which later became the [[Order of Poor Clares]] after her death. The 19th-century St.  [[Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows]] was also born in Assisi.