Ravenna - San Francesco

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

After Archbishop Fontana gave this church 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.

These Franciscans built this nice cloister, next to the church.