Baschi

 ( Cities And Towns In Umbria ) 

Baschi is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Terni in the Italy region Umbria, located about 50 km southwest of Perugia and about 35 km northwest of Terni.

The town retains many of its medieval elements. The present palazzo municipale was built at the site of a civic building from the 13th-century, refurbished in 1500 during the rule of Ranuccio dei Baschi. The basement now houses the town Antiquarium, which displays some of the ceramic finds from the excavation at Scoppieto.

The church of San Niccolò, with a single nave and two chapels, originally dates to the 12th-century, but was refurbished beginning in 1576 under the designs of Ippolito Scalza, and a decade later by Antonio Carrarino, who completed the bell-tower. In the chapel of the Holiest Sacrament (right of church) is a tryptich (1440) by Giovanni di Paolo, depicting the ''Madonna, St Nicola and another saint. Above the portal is an 18th-century organ.

A few kilometers outside the town is the former Franciscan monastery of Sant'Angelo di Pantanelli. Putatively St Francis stayed here and spoke to the fishes in the nearby river. Commune entry on tourism.