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This is a town of Medieval origin. The
"Castrum", from which its present name derives
through Greece then Grezze, is mentioned
since the 11th Cent.
The town has an excellent
mineral water spring (Fonte Lupetto) as well as
good receptive facilities. The Parish Church is
dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel, and is
at the top of a beautifully planned stairway.
Inside the Church a 16th Cent. painting (Madonna enthroned with Angels and
Saints),
over the left hand altar, is worth attention.
The
Franciscan Convent is built onto the rocky wall
of a wooded mountain side, about 2 kilometers
from the town. Tradition says that from 1209
St. Francis began to live on the top of Mount
Lacerone overlooking Greccio, building
himself a shelt between two birch trees. On this
spot, a commemorative Chapel rose in 1792.
One day St. Francis gave a child a lighted
firebrand. He said he would choose his dwelling
on the spot where the hurled firebrand fell to
earth.
Miraculously, it flew thorugh the air,
crossed the valley and struck the rocky where
the first retreat was founded and later, during
the time of St. Bonaventure, the Convent.
The road leads to a clearing, beneath a flourisshing oak. Going along a narrow corridor, one
reaches the Chapel of St. Luke, built out of the grotto
where St. Francis, commemorating the divine
mystery of the Nativity before a crowd of
faithful from Greccio and the rearby towns on
the night of Christmas in 1223, actually instituted what was to become the tradition of the
Christmas creche.
From that time the name of
this locality is known all over the world. The
renown of Greccio is increased with visit of
Johannes Paul II (2/1/1983).
Greccio accommodation in Hotel Farm House Farm Holiday Bed&Breakfast Camping Holiday Home Rooms for rent Residence Tourist Village Camp site.
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This is a town of Medieval origin. The "Castrum", from which its present name derives through Greece then Grezze, is mentioned since the 11th Cent.
The town has an excellent mineral water spring (Fonte Lupetto) as well as good receptive facilities. The Parish Church is dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel, and is at the top of a beautifully planned stairway. Inside the Church a 16th Cent. painting (Madonna enthroned with Angels and Saints), over the left hand altar, is worth attention.
The Franciscan Convent is built onto the rocky wall of a wooded mountain side, about 2 kilometers from the town. Tradition says that from 1209 St. Francis began to live on the top of Mount Lacerone overlooking Greccio, building himself a shelt between two birch trees. On this spot, a commemorative Chapel rose in 1792. One day St. Francis gave a child a lighted firebrand. He said he would choose his dwelling on the spot where the hurled firebrand fell to earth.
Miraculously, it flew thorugh the air, crossed the valley and struck the rocky where the first retreat was founded and later, during the time of St. Bonaventure, the Convent. The road leads to a clearing, beneath a flourisshing oak. Going along a narrow corridor, one reaches the Chapel of St. Luke, built out of the grotto where St. Francis, commemorating the divine mystery of the Nativity before a crowd of faithful from Greccio and the rearby towns on the night of Christmas in 1223, actually instituted what was to become the tradition of the Christmas creche.
From that time the name of this locality is known all over the world. The renown of Greccio is increased with visit of Johannes Paul II (2/1/1983).
Greccio accommodation in Hotel Farm House Farm Holiday Bed&Breakfast Camping Holiday Home Rooms for rent Residence Tourist Village Camp site.
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