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 San Francesco is a Baroque architecture, Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located on near the railway station in the town of Canicattì, province of Agrigento, region of Sicily, Italy. History The church is attached to the ancient Convent of t ...

, Sicily *

San Francesco, Casalbuttano San Francesco is a Baroque-style, Roman Catholic church located in Casalbuttano, Province of Cremona, region of Lombardy, Italy. History The present building began in the 17th century as an oratory associated with the ''Confraternita delle Sacre S ...

, Lombardy *

San Francesco, Cortona Church interior San Francesco is a 13th-century, Roman Catholic church located on via Berrettini in Cortona, region of Tuscany, Italy. History Built in 1245, the church has the typical Franciscan pattern: a large nave ending in an apse with a gro ...

, 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, 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, Lombardy * San Francesco, Modena, 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 San Francesco delle Monache is a Baroque-style church located in via Santa Chiara, in Naples, Italy. History A church at the site was first constructed for the nuns of an Order of St Clare in the 14th century by Robert of Anjou and his wife. ...

, 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, Umbria * San Francesco, Palermo or San Francesco d'Assisi, Palermo, Sicily * San Francesco, Pescia, Tuscany * San Francesco, Piacenza, Emilia Romagna * San Francesco, Pisa, Tuscany * San Francesco, Prato, Tuscany * Santissime Stimmate di San Francesco, Rome, Lazio * San Francesco a Ripa, Rome, Lazio * San Francesco, San Gemini, Umbria * San Francesco, San Marino, San Marino * San Francesco, Siena 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 Franciscan community was putatively located here by St Francis of Assisi himself. ...

, Marche * San Francesco della Vigna, Venice, Veneto *

San Francesco, Viterbo The Basilica of St. Francis ( it, Basilica di San Francesco alla Rocca) is a parish church and minor basilica in Viterbo, central Italy. The museological management of the church is run by the Polo Museale del Lazio. History The church was ...

, Lazio *

San Francesco, Terni The church of San Francesco is a late-Romanesque architecture, Romanesque and early-Gothic architecture, Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church and convent in the town of Terni, region of Umbria, in Italy. History A church at the site was originally ...

, Umbria

See also