The Dominican Church of San Giacomo Apostolo is a late

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church in

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. Built during the 13th century in the southern part of the town, it hosted friars of the

Dominican Order The Order of Preachers (, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic Church, Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilians, Castilian priest named Saint Dominic, Dominic de Gu ...

, hence it was better known as Church of San Domenico. In the first half of the 16th century, the two

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were restored and the

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was enlarged. Between 1715 and 1719, the

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interior was restored according to the late Baroque canons. With the last and final abolishment of the convent in 1867 by

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, the church was expoliated while the monastery was used as a shed for military vehicles. Then it was subject to a hard and progressive deterioration which, in 1978, brought to the collapse of the roof and the church demolition. The building of San Domenico is currently undergoing a vast recovery project and a part of it has become the seat of a

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A video shot by Forlì TV about the opening of the first painting exhibition at the museum of the Dominican Church of San Giacomo Apostolo.
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