The entry Church of San Francesco includes churches linked to the devotion to

St Francis of Assisi Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, better known as Saint Francis of Assisi ( it, Francesco d'Assisi; – 3 October 1226), was a Mysticism, mystic Italian Catholic Church, Catholic friar, founder of the Franciscans, and one of the most vener ...

(San Francesco in Italian) and the

Franciscan order , image = FrancescoCoA PioM.svg , image_size = 200px , caption = A cross, Christ's arm and Saint Francis's arm, a universal symbol of the Franciscans , abbreviation = OFM , predecessor = , ...

. They mainly include churches or monasteries in the Italian peninsula in the following cities/towns and regions: *

San Francesco, Acquasparta San Francesco is a romanesque/gothic-style, church located in Acquasparta, Province of Terni, region of Umbria, Italy. Located outside the city walls of the town, the church was commissioned in 1294 by Cardinal Matteo Bentivenga. The church wa ...

, Umbria *

San Francesco alle Scale San Francesco alle Scale is a church in Ancona, central Italy. History Sited at the top of a staircase leading to the eponymous square, the church was founded in 1323 by the Franciscans, and was originally dedicated to Santa Maria Maggiore. It ...

, Ancona, Marche * San Francesco, Arezzo, Tuscany *

San Francesco, Assisi The Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi ( it, Basilica di San Francesco d'Assisi; la, Basilica Sancti Francisci Assisiensis) is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor Conventual in Assisi, a town in the Umbria region in cen ...

or Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Umbria *

San Francesco, Atri San Francesco is a Baroque architecture, Roman Catholic church in Atri, Province of Teramo, Region of Abruzzo Abruzzo (, , ; nap, label=Neapolitan language, Abruzzese Neapolitan, Abbrùzze , ''Abbrìzze'' or ''Abbrèzze'' ; nap, label=Sabino di ...

, Abruzzo *

San Francesco, Bologna The Basilica of Saint Francis ( it, Basilica San Francesco) is a historic church in the city of Bologna in northern Italy. Founded in the 13th century, it has been the property of the Conventual Franciscan friars since then. The church has been ra ...

or Basilica of San Francesco, Bologna, Reggio-Emilia * San Francesco, Canicattì, Sicily * San Francesco, Casalbuttano, Lombardy * San Francesco, Cortona, Tuscany *

San Francesco di Paola, Florence San Francesco di Paola is a small Renaissance-style Roman Catholic church in the Oltrarno quarter of Florence, central Italy. History It was built starting from the 1580s as part of a new monastery of the Minims, known as the ''Convento del Bel ...

, Tuscany *

San Francesco, Grosseto San Francesco is a medieval, Gothic style, Roman Catholic church in the comune of Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy. History The church of San Francesco was originally attached to the Benedictine Order and dedicated to San Fortunato. But it was subsequent ...

, Tuscany *

San Francesco, Larino San Francesco is an ancient, Roman Catholic church and convent, rebuilt in Baroque architecture, Baroque style in the hill-town of Larino, in the Province of Campobasso, Region of Molise, Italy. History San Francesco was originally constructed in t ...

, Molise *

San Francesco, Lucca San Francesco is a former Gothic-style Roman-Catholic church and monastery located in Piazza San Francesco in central Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. Since its restoration, it is home to IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, a superior graduate school. ...

, Tuscany *

San Francesco, Lucignano San Francesco is a Romanesque- and Gothic-style Roman Catholic church located in the center of Lucignano, region of Tuscany, Italy. History The church is first mentioned as belonging to Frati Minori in 1289. The church with a bicolored (travert ...

, Tuscany *

San Francesco, Mantua The Chiesa di San Francesco ( Italian language, Italian, "Church of St. Francis" ) is a Roman Catholic church located in the historic center of Mantua, Italy, at Piazza San Francesco d'Assisi 5. The church was founded by the Franciscan Order in ...

, Lombardy *

San Francesco, Modena San Francesco is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church in central Modena, Italy. History Franciscan friars were present in Modena early, by 1221, when Francis was still alive. But as was their custom, their first monastery and church were located ...

, Emilia Romagna *

San Francesco, Mondavio San Francesco is a Gothic architecture, Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church and convent located near the center of Mondavio, region of Marche, Italy. The convent is now part of an elementary school at Piazza Matteotti. History While the exterior ...

, Marche * San Francesco delle Monache, Naples, Campania *

San Francesco di Paola, Naples San Francesco di Paola is a prominent church located to the west in Piazza del Plebiscito, the main square of Naples, Italy. In the early 19th century, King Joachim Murat of Naples (Napoleon's brother-in-law) planned the entire square and the la ...

, Campania *

San Francesco, Orvieto Chiesa di San Francesco is a church in Orvieto, Umbria, Italy. It was consecrated in 1266. It belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orvieto-Todi. History The Franciscans established a hermitage near Orvieto in the early 13th century and built t ...

, Umbria *

San Francesco, Palermo The Church of Saint Francis of Assisi (Italian: Chiesa di San Francesco d'Assisi or simply San Francesco d'Assisi) is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church of Palermo. It is located near a major and ancient street of the city, via Cassaro, in ...

or San Francesco d'Assisi, Palermo, Sicily *

San Francesco, Pescia San Francesco is a Romanesque and Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church located at Piazza San Francesco in Pescia, region of Tuscany, Italy. History Tradition holds that in 1211, St Francis, stayed three days in the house of Venanzio Orlandi whic ...

, Tuscany *

San Francesco, Piacenza San Francesco is a medieval Roman Catholic church in Piacenza, Italy. It was built for a Franciscan order in a style described as Lombard Gothic. History The church and adjacent monastery were built for the Friars Minor order, between 1278 and 1 ...

, Emilia Romagna *

San Francesco, Pisa San Francesco de' Ferri is a church in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy. Mentioned for the first time in a document from 1233, the church was rebuilt starting from 1261 by will of archbishop Federico Visconti. The church was under the patronage of the Pisa ...

, Tuscany *

San Francesco, Prato San Francesco is a Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church located in front of the square named after the church, in the historic center of Prato, region of Tuscany, Italy. San Francesco’s church, in the homonym square (XII–XIV sec.), it is lo ...

, Tuscany *

Santissime Stimmate di San Francesco The Ss. Stimmate di San Francesco ("Church of the Holy Stigmata of St. Francis") is a church in central Rome, Italy, in the Rione Pigna, sited where previously there was a church called Ss. Quaranta Martiri de Calcarario. It is located on via dei ...

, Rome, Lazio *

San Francesco a Ripa San Francesco a Ripa is a church in Rome, Italy. It is dedicated to Francis of Assisi who once stayed at the adjacent convent. The term ''Ripa'' refers to the nearby riverbank of the Tiber. History The origins of this church are related to a Fr ...

, Rome, Lazio *

San Francesco, San Gemini San Francesco is Gothic-style, Roman Catholic, church in a piazza of the same name in the town of San Gemini, region of Umbria it, Umbro (man) it, Umbra (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 ...

, Umbria *

San Francesco, San Marino Chiesa di San Francesco is a church in San Marino. It belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Marino-Montefeltro. It was built in 1361. The church of San Francesco is a church in the city of San Marino The City of San Marino ( it, Cit ...

, San Marino *

San Francesco, Siena San Francesco is a basilica church in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. It was erected in c. 1228-1255 and later enlarged in the 14th-15th centuries, the original Romanesque architecture, Romanesque edifice being turned into the current large Gothic archit ...

or Basilica of San Francesco, Siena, Tuscany, *

San Francesco, Urbania San Francesco is a Roman Catholic church in Urbania, region of Marche, Italy. It has a diverse set of styles reflecting refurbishments over the centuries. History A Franciscans, Franciscan community was putatively located here by St Francis of Ass ...

, Marche *

San Francesco della Vigna San Francesco della Vigna is a Roman Catholic church in the Sestiere of Castello in Venice, northern Italy. History Along with Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, this is one of two Franciscan churches in Venice. The site, originally a vineyard (''v ...

, Venice, Veneto * San Francesco, Viterbo, Lazio * San Francesco, Terni, Umbria

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