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The convent of Colfano is located near the town of Camporotondo. According to tradition, St. Francis, in one of his trips to the Marca, founded a place of meditation and prayer near a spring that now flows in the underground rooms of the monastic complex.
In recent years, thanks to the work of Father Natale Sartini, parish priest of Monastero and minor friar of Colfano, the Grotta dei Frati has been restored to its original state and you can thus admire the church, the altar and the cistern.
The convent is part of an itinerary that guides the visitor from the hermitage and the cave of Soffiano, to the ancient convent of Roccabruna (Sarnano), to the Caves of the Friars of Cessapalombo, to other places that tell us about the life of the first Franciscans.
Of artistic importance, a Madonna enthroned and saints Francesco, Pietro, Giovanni Battista, Ludovico di Tolosa, by Nobile da Lucca, signed and dated 1490; Crucifixion with the Virgin, St. Mary Magdalene, St. John the Evangelist, St. Francis (canvas attributed to the same Caldarolese painter); Holy Family of Giovanni Andrea de Magistris signed and dated 1547.
Source: https://www.turismo.marche.it/it-it/Cosa-vedere/Attrazioni/Chiesa-di-San-Francesco/8936