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The convent has very ancient origins. It was built by San Francesco, around 1200, during his pilgrimage from Assisi to Loreto. In the portico you can still admire frescoes from the 13th and 15th centuries that illustrate the most important episodes in the life of the Poverello of Assisi. Furthermore, in the vicinity of the Convent, there is the well where St. Francis would have changed the water into wine to refresh the workers tired of the long work.
The church, with a single nave with a trussed roof, dates back to the fourteenth century, while the convent was rebuilt during the eighteenth century. The apse is totally frescoed with paintings attributed to Cola di Pietro. Another fresco, depicting the Madonna della Misericordia, is attributed to Girolamo di Giovanni.
Furthermore, inside the church there is a nineteenth-century copy of a fourteenth-century crucifix similar to that of San Damiano di Assisi. The original, which according to tradition was donated to the convent by St. Francis himself, was destroyed in 1892 during a fire.
Today the ancient convent, in the frame of the Sibillini National Park, hosts weddings and ceremonies, especially in the internal cloister, where you can admire the frescoes describing the life of St. Francis of Assisi.
Source: https://www.turismo.marche.it/it-it/Cosa-vedere/Attrazioni/Chiesa-e-Convento-di-S-Francesco-(Pontelatrave)/8934