Hotel GANS in Cascia

Where Hotel GANS is in Cascia

The hotel is in the town of Cascia, the Umbrian town linked to the life of Saint Rita, who was born in 1381 in the nearby village of Roccaporena and lived between her home village and Cascia.

Hotel GANS: facilities

Besides accommodation, the hotel offers an in-house restaurant-pizzeria, so guests can have dinner without going out. The eleven rooms each have their own bathroom.

What to see near Hotel GANS

From Cascia, an old medieval path leads to Roccaporena, retracing the places of the saint: it runs along the hillside and overlooks the meadows and the Corno river valley from above.

At Roccaporena, visitors see Rita's birthplace and marital home, the lazaretto where she cared for sick travelers, and the church of San Montano, where she was married. Above the village rises the Scoglio Sacro (Sacred Rock), the boulder she climbed to pray according to tradition; opposite it, in the cliff, opens the Grotta d'Oro, linked to the legend of the nymph Porrina, from whom the village may take its name. The route is completed by the Orto del Miracolo (garden of the miracle), with roses and a small fig tree recalling the gifts the saint asked for on her deathbed, and the Santuario di Roccaporena, opened to the faithful in 1948.