We are spending a week in Rome over Easter and want to do a day trip to Assisi. Is it easy to simply take the train and be on our own, or does it make more sense to spend the money and do a bus tour? 4 of us (husband, wife, 2 teens). I like the train idea, but want to make sure we can get around Assisi on our own. I think I just need convinced that we can get it done.
Posted by
Chicago
2876 posts
You can totally get around on your own. You can easily walk from one end of Assisi to another and see everything there is to see. You don't need a bus tour.
Posted by
Plano, TX, USA
18 posts
It can be done very easily by train. I did a day trip to Assisi and Perugia in one day from Rome by train in November, 2009 . The train trip to Perugia from Assisi took only 30 minutes. You can do both towns easily by yourself and save money by not using the bus or guided tour. My suggestion, do both Assisi and Perugia yourself and use train.
Posted by
Seattle, WA, USA
7737 posts
Rick Steves has an excellent self-guided tour of Assisi, where you start at the top and end up at the Basilica. I highly recommend it.
If you're really adventuresome, once you're in Assisi proper (not the lower town where the train station is), you might want to hop on the local commuter bus. It takes you on a roller-coaster type ride around the town, tracing a sort of daisy-petal pattern in and out of town and back in again, over and over. You'll see parts of Assisi most tourists never see, including beautiful views of the surrounding valleys, sometimes at breakneck speeds with pedestrians dodging out of the way. It was a blast!