Ravenna - San Francesco

Already Bishop Neon had a church built here in the 5th century, but this church got largely rebuilt around 1000.

After Archbishop Fontana gave the basilica to the Franciscans (= "Order of Friars Minor") in 1261, the monks dedicated the church to San Francesco (aka "Francesco d'Assisi", "Francis of Assisi"), who had founded the order just about 50 years earlier.