POI data

General information
Convento di San Francesco
Monastery
Catholic
no
St. Francis of Assisi (1471) and the convent of Friars Minor (1592). The church stands in the new part of the country, until the sixties it was far from the rest of the town. It contains masterpieces of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, including major works by Girolamo di Santacroce altar that represents the Virgin seated on a throne with a child who prays with angels, saints and apostles.
Location
Via San Francesco 138
Castellaneta
Italy
Puglia
40.6269
16.9218
215.40
Contact
Diocese of Castellaneta
099 8491317
Pugliapromozione Regional Agency for Turism of Puglia
Additional information
Good
Scheduled visit
Average
Medium
Regional
Insufficient
Appian Way
Religious tourism,Cultural tourism
Franciscan,Gothic,Monastery,painted monastery,Renaissance