This impressive construction is near the majestic Gallenga palace (18 C) which contains a university for foreign students. It is made from enormous stone blocks. To the left on top of the tower is a loggia dating from the 16C.

The Benedictines between 1029 and 1268 built this Romanesque church.

Built in the 16-17 C, it has an interior of pure and austere lines. To the left of the doorway, the recumbent figure of Bartolomeo Aragazzi is by the Florentine architect Michelozzo and formed part of a tomb whose other element have been dispersed: the two statues which flank the main altar and the bas-reliefs of the first two pillars come from it. Attractive terracotta by Andrea Della Robbia above the baptismal fonts and monumental retable by Taddeo di Bartolo (1401).

This 16C basilica surrounds the Portioncule built around the Millennium that St Francis named Clare the Bride of Christ in. It was in the neighbouring Chapel of the transit that he died on October 3 1226. In addition to the beautiful frescoes dedicated to the Franciscans and a beautiful glazed earthenware polyptych by Andrea della Robbia, there is the rose bush, which the saint threw himself into to resist temptation, the cave he prayed in and a statue of the saint, which the doves love.