Bertocci, StefanoCioli, Federico2025-02-052025-02-052024Ostos Prieto, F.J., Reicher, C.,...,Pérez Cano, M.T. (2024). From Asis to Europe: Territorial-urban development of the Franciscan Order. En S. Bertocci, F. Cioli (Ed.), Franciscan Landscapes: Conservation, Protection and Use of Religious Cultural Heritage in the Digital Era. V. 2. (pp. 429-438). Firenze: Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di Architettura.978-88-3338-222-7https://hdl.handle.net/11441/168271The first monastery by Saint Francis in Assisi in 1209 marked the beginning of an extraordinary expansion that reached all the Christian territories of the European continent. It was a historic milestone whose magnitude was magnifed by the diffculty of communications and territorial infrastructures in the Middle Age. The Franciscans went from a single settlement in 1209 to more than 1200 towns in a century. The order confgured a vast territorial network in provinces, whose delimitations overlapped the medieval political frameworks. Cartographies and spatial data management tools have been used to study this territorial structure during the 13th century. These have allowed a graphically analyse establishing percentages, densities and heat maps of the Franciscan monasteries. The superimposition of this information with geographical, hydraulic or political maps has generated interesting clues for the understanding of the frst stage of Franciscan expansion in Europe.application/pdf10 p.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/EuropeFranciscan citiesGeographic Information Systemsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess