Chiesa di San Francesco

Built between the city center and the cathedral, it boasts a late-medieval bell tower and preserves works from the sixteenth century

The church and the Franciscan convent complex were built in a peripheral area of the historic center, of which they became the hub, along the road that leads to the cathedral. Probably founded in the 14th century, the church underwent radical transformations in the 18th and 19th centuries, but retains its original shape with a single nave plan with chapels and a square-plan choir. 

On the right side, incorporated into the structures of the convent, stands the fourteenth-fifteenth century bell tower, with single lancet windows and spire. 

In the sixteenth century, the de Amicis chapel was built inside after it was obtained by the jurist Giovanni, who was buried there in a tomb with the figure of the occupant. It was later removed and transferred to the cloister during the seventeenth century. Only the slab of the monument remains, now walled up in the sacristy, where there is also a sixteenth-century Eucharistic tabernacle.