Address: Piazza San Francesco - Fiesole
The Convent of San Francesco now stands on the top of the hill that was once
the site of the Etruscan acropolis and then of the Roman
acropolis, followed by the medieval fortress which was destroyed
by the Florentines in 1125. Founded at the beginning of the 14th
century as the headquarters of the Florentine hermits, it was
turned over to the Franciscans in the early 15th century. They
enlarged the Church - which now consists of a long narrow nave
with barrel vaulting - and the Convent, of which
San Bernardino of Siena was abbot.
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