The Dominican Church of San Giacomo Apostolo is a late

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church in

Forlì Forlì ( , ; rgn, Furlè ; la, Forum Livii) is a ''comune'' (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. It is the central city of Romagna. The city is situated along the Via E ...

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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 ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...

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

monastery A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which ...

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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