The Basilica of St Francis

The Twentieth Century

  • Once the interior restoration had been completed, plans were made to renovate the bell tower and the façade, on which Giuseppe Partini had opened a rose window. Among the various proposals the one made by architects Vittorio Mariani and Gaetano Ceccherelli prevailed: therefore, between 1894 and 1913, the fifteenth-century portal with the sculpture of Saint Francis was dismantled leaving only the . . .