{"id":3957,"date":"2026-04-02T11:57:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/visite-guidate\/guided-tour-of-cascia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:57:51","slug":"guided-tour-of-cascia","status":"publish","type":"tour","link":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/guided-tours\/guided-tour-of-cascia\/","title":{"rendered":"Guided tour of Cascia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cascia<\/strong>, Story of Rita. The extraordinary life of a woman capable of transforming deadly hatred into Christian love. <\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visiting Cascia means retracing the places of St. Rita&#8217;s life, reliving the miracles and personal history of a saint.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was not only a witness to the Passion of Christ, but also a wife, mother and woman of her time.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, a visit to the monastery, sanctuary and nearby <strong>Roccaporena<\/strong> does not exhaust all that Cascia has to offer.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 15th-century frescoes in the museum-church of St. Anthony Abbot are a small jewel of late Gothic art that take visitors back to the enchanted atmosphere of a Middle Ages at once cruel and magical.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Collegiate church of Santa Maria with the baptismal font of Santa Rita.<\/li>\n<li>Basilica of Saint Rita with the crystal urn with the Saint&#8217;s body inside.<\/li>\n<li>Monastery of St. Rita, where places and objects related to St. Rita&#8217;s experience of religious life are preserved.<\/li>\n<li>Church of St. Anthony, church-museum with interesting frescoes.<\/li>\n<li>Civic Museum in the Santi Palace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roccaporena is located <strong>5.5 km<\/strong> from Cascia and is the birthplace of Saint Rita.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here it is possible to visit the places where the saint lived before her husband&#8217;s death: the house where she was born, her husband&#8217;s house, the lazaretto, the church of San Montano, and especially the miracle garden and the prayer rock.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":3234,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categoria-tour":[161],"class_list":["post-3957","tour","type-tour","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria-tour-guided-tours-in-valnerina"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tour\/3957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tour"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tour"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria-tour","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidaturisticainumbria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria-tour?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}