The Franciscan minor monks arrived in Faenza around 1230, not long after the Dominicans and erected their gothic style church in 1271, of which there are few remains on the right exterior (a portal, traces of arches and other wall elements), in addition to residues of frescoes in the vestry. The gothic church was demolished in 1740 and gave way to one of the greatest building sites of Faenza of the 1700’s to then be completed in 1751 and directed by the Faentine maestros Raffaele Campidori and G.Battista Boschi and the architect from Imola Cosi...
The tower was recently restored outlining the beauty of the fifteenth-century wall in face bricks with a beautiful string course curb in “spungone” stone. The current construction dates back to 1476, the year of the reconstruction of the small fortress carried out by the Manfredi’s, the noble family of Faenza. Tradition has that it was Giuliano from Maiano, the Manfredi’s trusted architect (sent to Faenza by the Medici in the spheres of a complex diplomatic and cultural relationship between the two families) and who were in Faenza during those ...
Restructured in the 1700’s, it still has an extraordinary medieval crypt made of re-used Roman material.The current church does not have particular attractions, if not the balance of the architecture, a late work of G.Battista Campidiori. The painting on the main altar is a copy (1920, of an original by Cisari). Instead, the “oratory style” crypt divided into three naves is exceptional (it dates back to different periods according to different scholars, but the most probable is the XI century). It is made up of recycled material that is much mo...
