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The church of San Domenico was begun in 1266 by the Dominican friars, who had been living in Rieti since 1263 and celebrated in the church of the Holy Apostles. The relative convent was declared officially erected in 1268. Many central Italian painters frescoed the walls and chapels throughout the 14th century. The present bell tower dates from 1642. In 1862, with the unification of Italy, the friars were definitively expelled from the convent and the church was deconsecrated. The whole complex was used as barracks and the church was transformed into a stable. The church was rededicated in 1999.

The church of San Domenico, founded together with the convent in the 16th century by Tommaso Fazzello, was rebuilt in the second half of the 18th century to a design by Ermenegildo Vetrano and restored in 1859.

The church of San Domenico was built, together with the adjoining convent, in the early 14th century. The walls are richly decorated with frescoes and paintings from the 1400s depicting scenes from the life of St. Dominic have been uncovered. Of the adjoining 14th century convent, only the arches of the cloister remain. The complex, completed in 1407, was closed in the early 19th century following the Napoleonic edict but was returned to the Dominicans in 1931.

The church of San Domenico, built between 1289 and 1318, is one of the oldest churches in Trapani. In 1221, some Spanish Dominicans, missionaries in the Holy Land, returned from Palestine and settled in the city of Trapani. It was James of Aragon, in 1289, who granted the Dominican fathers a chapel built on the highest point of the city, which was enlarged in the first decades of the 14th century, elevated to the rank of royal chapel, and endowed with a large convent, revenues, rents and privileges. The temple was originally dedicated to Santa Maria La Nova. It underwent important interventions in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The church of San Donato was founded in the 12th century as a Benedictine monastery of Vallombrosian rule, dependent on the abbey of San Michele in Passignano. The Latin cross-shaped building has lost its original Romanesque forms, except for the octagonal tiburium. The interior, with a single nave, has a Baroque appearance dating from the end of the 17th century. The neo-Romanesque gabled facade is the result of a restoration (1940-1942) that erased the previous 18th-century facade.

The church of San Francesco di Pisa was built between the 13th and the 17th century. The single-nave church plan is from the 13th century, the cloisters and the 15th century chapel, the facade was completed in 1603. Used as a military warehouse from1861, the church was reused only in 1901.

The church of San Francesco a Ripa is a sacred building whose origin dates back to the 13th century. In 1603, a restoration of the medieval church began in the choir area, based on a project by Onorio Longhi; the same architect also renovated the transept and the naves. From 1681, thanks to the funding of Cardinal Lazzaro Pallavicino, who died in 1680 and is buried in the church, the building underwent a radical restoration including the demolition and reconstruction of the hall, designed by Mattia de Rossi; the work was completed in 1701. During the French occupation, many works of art were sent to France as part of the Napoleonic spoliations. The church owes its name to its proximity to the suppressed port of Ripa Grande, which overlooked the Tiber until the 19th century.

The church of San Francesco all'Immacolata is an imposing temple, the second largest church in Messina. It is the first temple of the Franciscan order in Sicily, built during the Angevin period in 1254 in honour of St. Francis, only 28 years after his death, at the request of some of the nobles of Messina and the friars themselves.

The Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi was built from 1255 to 1277, but its interior was redesigned several times from the fifteenth century. The church was badly damaged during the Second World War and restored after the war on the model of Sant'Agostino (Palermo).

The church of San Francesco d'Assisi was erected for the first time in medieval times, but its distinctive Baroque style was given to it during a renovation between 1608 and 1761.