The Church and Convent of San Francesco constitute one of the most interesting and precious testimonies left by the Minor Conventuals in Sardinia.
The cloister was an open space surrounded by four porticoed sides. The convent incorporates some arms developed on the model of open galleries on the ground floor, arranged around a green area which was accessed by large round arches in pink trachyte.
Unfortunately, the lack of documentary sources and the damage suffered during the 1940s (when it was used as an air-raid shelter) do not allow us to state whether the cloister we see today is precisely the one of origin. Currently, following restoration work, it has been possible to recover a part of the original complex.
Church and convent of San Francesco
Address: Via S. Marcello, 09016
Phone: 0781274507
Site:
http://www.visitiglesias.comune.iglesias.ca.it/it/iglesias/attrazioni/attrazione/Chiostro-di-San-Francesco/Location inserted by
Maura Porru