Chiesa e Convento di San Francesco

The Chiesa e Convento di San Francesco is a Baroque church whose original rectangular plan was extended in 1977, giving it an L-shape with four chapels. Typical of a seventeenth-century church, only the main facade receives aesthetic treatment, here clad in red trachyte. Above the entrance door, a mullioned window and two pilasters define the perimeter, with a rose window set higher still. The campanile has a series of single-light windows and a clock at its summit.

The convent divides into an old wing, now entirely abandoned, and a new wing where the friars live. The old part rises over two floors, linked by a double-flight staircase with a cross vault. A precious internal courtyard separates the older wing from the newer one. The main facade is distinguished by four massive buttresses; on the same elevation, the upper floor retains seven windows.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.