Monumental complex of Montefiorentino

It goes back by tradition to its founder San Francesco (1213). A papal bull of 1248 grants indulgences to the faithful, who contribute to its restoration. One of the largest monasteries in the Marche region, with spacious interiors and over 10 hectares of land, used as a park and sports area. Its structure, located on a pleasant and suggestive hill, surrounded by greenery, has undergone restoration and enlargement over the centuries, especially in 1600. The Polyptych by Alvise Vivarini (1475) belongs to the Church of Montefiorentino, today exhibited at the National Gallery of art in Urbino. The Cappella dei Conti Oliva, built in 1484 by commission of Count Carlo Oliva, is the pride of the Municipality of Frontino, a must for art lovers, and is attributed to Francesco De Simone Ferrucci da Fiesole. Entering the church, appears on the right in a soft light and strikes for its refined and rigorous language that brings back the taste of Tuscan artists. Work of great renaissance purity for its architectural lines, for the finely carved marble sarcophagi. Beautiful two inlaid kneelers, made by Master Zocchino (1493), which recall the study of the Duke of Urbino. The altarpiece on the table, one of the most successful works by Giovanni Santi, father of Raphael, represents the Madonna with the Child and the Saints Giorgio, Francesco, Antonio Abate and Girolamo (1489). There are also preserved a fresco with Saint Anthony the Abbot, attributed to Evangelista da Piandimeleto, and an ancient organ, a choir in seventeenth-century walnut and other minor paintings. The ground floor of the Convent encloses the Cloister and is structured in various rooms with round vaults or cross vaults. At the Convent there is also a collection of various paintings and ancient gradual texts and printed antiphonaries.