The church of Saint Francis is located just outside the town of Montefiascone along the road to Marta.
It was part of a convent that from 1875 was transformed into a civil hospital.
History tells that the church was founded in 1222 after the passage of St. Francis through Montefiascone during his mission to the Kingdom of Naples.
The church is a simple building with a gabled façade in local squared stone.
It is enriched by a simple entrance door with a lunette and a double-lancet window in carved peperino stone.
The interior has a single nave with side niches and a barrel-vaulted roof.
The eighteenth-century style is very detached from the simplicity of the external facade.
The interior is enriched with works of art including a nineteenth-century painting showing a bishop between Santa Lucia, San Giacomo Pellegrino and a martyr.
Among other works of art, a Crucifixion with Saints and an eighteenth-century painting depicting San Filippo Neri and San Bonaventura in adoration of the Virgin.
Today the church is the chapel of the hospital and of the ancient convent the well of the cloister can be recognized.
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