Being able to see with my eyes the knight with the bowed head was actually one of the reasons which made me stop in Assisi for a couple of nights during my Vespatour 2006.
My Italian literature professor at Lyceum often talked about Assisi, San Francesco and his conversion from a venture soldier to a humble monk.
The sculpture placed in the area in from of the beautiful Basilica Superiore of Assisi symbolizes this conversion.
Not too far from there, the Eremo delle Carceri is a place where you can breathe the spirituality of the Franciscan lifestyle in every corner, from the openings in the surrounding woods where the monks used to gather and pray, to the cells where they rested.
At the Eremo I met a kind monk who told me “you walked a long way, I can see it!”, he showed me the ancient refectory and then he told me another thing, a sort of a compliment, a sentence I can’t forget and that I prefer keeping for myself until I’ll write the travel book about my Vespatour.
Here you can see the 45 pictures of the thirteen gallery of the Vespatour 2006.