Church and Convent of St. Francis. The first nuceus of this site consists in seven tiny and extremely austere cells. It was begun in 1218 by the saint himself next to the twelfth century chapel of Saint Catherine of Siena donated to him by the Benedictine monks of St. Julian. Though altered and restored down through the centuries, it still maintains intact the oratory of the saint with the stone which was his bed, the primitive cells

the small sixteenth century church, works of art and rather important Franciscan memorabilia. At the entrance to the convent on the left there stands the chapel of St. Bernardino built in the middle of the fifteenth century. In the centre of the cloister there is a well whose water was supposedly made to gush forth from the rock by the saint himself.