Bollywood: Church Service - Saint Francis and Surveillance (Assisi) Videos

Added: Nov 18, 2008

From: checkinarchitecture

Duration: 1:41

Apart from being Saint Francis' town and hosting a basilica in his honor, the nice medieval town of Assisi has always been a place of tolerance and solidarity: after WWII it gave a home to homeless Jews and, when pope John Paul II organized a meeting of all religious leaders in 1986 and 2002, they all came to Assisi. These days the people lying on the basilica's steps aren't the lepers that Saint Francis used to help, but half naked tourists with a new generation of beggars preying upon these well-heeled pilgrims. In order to change this crowded situation, the right-wing mayor decided to impose heavy restrictions and control over the whole city center, making the church areas and their steps off limits and putting up surveillance services and cameras.Mission by Nicolò Dragoni, Selvaggia VeraniLook at this mission also on Check-in Architecture website http://www.checkinarchitecture.com/mission/214 or on Google Earth http://www.checkinarchitecture.com/index/earth/mission/214.kml

Channel: Travel

Tags: church  public  religion  saint  space  tourism 

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