The history of the church of San Pietro and the Franciscan Convent of Pofi is truly unique.
In 1699 Pope Innocent XII gave a favourable opinion to the construction of the new monastery and church in the province.
He granted the request of Giovanni Battista De Carolis of Pofi who had asked him to make it happen ‘on your Earth’.
In 1704 they were completed.
The church has undergone changes and now has two main aisles, of which one is older, and four chapels with one particularly large.
Above the altar is a large altarpiece depicting the Virgin enthroned, work of the Franciscan painter Fra Pietro Copenhagen (called the Danish Raphael).
Under the central altar there is a statue in terracotta of the Dead Christ, by a late nineteenth century Neapolitan.
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