Church of San Francesco (ruins) (Fano)

 church, ruins, interesting place

The church is located south of the old town of Fano (PU) . Architectural complex of San Francesco , which includes the church and convent , was built from the middle of the thirteenth century , as evidenced by the papal bull dated 1255 in which Alexander IV grants indulgences to those who bestows financial contributions for the building . From this moment on, the factory will be sponsored by the Malatesta family and came to their chosen act as a place to house the tombs of some members of the family, originally placed in the choir , then moved under the porch from the mid-seventeenth century. The Franciscan complex will be completed around 1336 , the date of his consecration . Instead of the old church survives the southwestern flank still visible, and part of the wall is parallel to the eighteenth-century convent now hidden from the building , as well as the facade hidden by the nineteenth-century loggia and the Malatesta graves . In the nineteenth century the church underwent restoration aimed at extending and modernizing the building , by the architect and the engineer Angelo Giuseppe Ferroni Innocenzi . With the suppression of the order of Friars Minor , in the early years of the twentieth century , the church will be used as a barn and warehouse, while the convent building was used as a military barracks until 1912 , when , with the construction of new , become the current town hall .
In 1930 a violent earthquake compromise the solidity of the structure so as to make urgent culling coverage and raising the nineteenth century , which is why today the Franciscan church there is no roof .
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