Church of San Francesco dei Minori Osservanti

The S. Francesco is part of the monumental complex of the convent of the Minor Observant friars which dates back to the early 17th century. Inside, the church, decorated with eighteenth-century plaster stucco of serpottian style depicting elegant festoons, preserves, in a fine altar with mixed marble, a marble sculpture of the Gaginian area depicting the Madonna of the snow. The convent, adjacent to the church and the city cemetery, dates back to 1604. With the unification of Italy it was acquired by the state according to the subversive laws of 1866 and put up for auction to be purchased by the municipality which created, in the adjacent lands , the cemetery. Today the monastic building remains the perimeter walls, part of the cells and the splendid Cloister, of great historical interest which preserves traces of precious frescoes and columns, finely carved in the local sandstone.