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Church and Complex of San Francesco

The Church and conventual complex of San Francesco, built following the settlement of the Franciscan friars (ca. 1280), preserve notable artistic testimonies and house an epigraphic-sculptural collection and a collection of sacred art, with works from Monteleone and its surroundings.

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Church and Hospice or Hospital of St. James

The building of the Hospital of St. James Church (institute of XIII-XIX century under the dependencies of the Hospital of the Star of Spoleto) has the following inscription on the lintel: "NON NOBIS D (o) M (in) (E) SED NOMINI TUO "(Lord, not in our names, but in Yours), which recalls the motto of the Templar Knights.

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Church of Madonna del Carmelo

The Church of Madonna del Carmelo (now a private home) is enlarged on XVII century and related to the Opera Pia Salamandra, which was unharmed by the earthquake on 1703 , and preserves decorated doorposts and the convex lintel, with the inscription "DEIPARE VIRG. CARM. SACRVM "(Consecrated to the Virgin of Carmine Mother of God).

Chiesa della Madonna delle Grazie a Butino

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Church of Madonna delle Grazie in Butino

The Church of Madonna delle Grazie in Butino stands on the ruins of Vetranula castrum destroyed by the earthquake in 1328 and linked to the birth of the legendary "Strascinati", typical dish of Monteleone.

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Church of Madonna di Castelvecchio

From the Church of Madonna di Castelvecchio there is a wooden sculpture dating back to the Romanesque foundation (Madonna with the Child of the thirteenth century, preserved in St. Francis).

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Church of Saint Lucia

The Church of Saint Lucia, with its homonymous fountain of therapeutic waters, it is built in 1629-31 by De Rubeis.

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Church of San Bernardino of Siena

The Church of San Bernardino, now desecrated and abandoned, does not appear in the documents of the pastoral visit of Cardinal Eroli (1465), but it is already described in ruins by Lascaris Bishop (1712).

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Church of San Gilberto

The Church of San Gilberto, founded on the Lateran ground in 1365, is dedicated to the hermit Gilberto from Monteleone.

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Church of San Giovanni Battista

The Church of San Giovanni Battista, founded by Napoleone Tiberti in the early fourteenth century with a Hospice and a female House of St. John order, is the location of the Buona Morte Confratenity (whose wooden sculpture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of the Dead Christ is in San Francesco).