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The Franciscan monastery on Hvar is a 15th-century ecclesiastical complex overlooking the sea at the western end of the island. It consists of a Renaissance cloister and a beautiful bell tower built in the same by a local family of stonemasons. The garden of the monastery is famous for housing a 300-year-old cypress.

The Franciscan monastery at Kadaň can be traced back to a chapel first mentioned in 1469, to which the first Franciscans added a temporary building in 1473. In 1480, the three-nave church was consecrated. The church was the last resting place of the Lords of Lobkowicz. The growth of the monastery was slowed down by the Thirty Years' War. The restoration took place in the second half of the 17th century. During the Josephine reforms, the monastery narrowly escaped dissolution in 1785, but after a long decline, it was eventually given to the municipality in the 1990s. The monastery now houses the municipal museum of Kadaň.

The Franciscan Monastery is a neo-Romanesque monastic complex that was built from 1903 to 1908. The monastery is located near a replica of the Massabielle cave built in 1905.

The Imperial St. Bartholomew Cathedral in Frankfurt am Main is the largest sacred building in the city. The original building was built as early as the 7th century and the cathedral has since played an important role in German history as the electoral and coronation church of the Roman-German emperors.

The church in Fränninge was built at the end of the 12th century. Originally, it had a wide tower and a narrower apse. The upper parts of the tower were demolished in the late Middle Ages and the present tower was built further west. The crossed arms and the present apse were added in 1868 in a reconstruction project designed by C.G. Brunius.

St. Francis of Assisi is a church built from 1900 to 1913. The Rhenish-Roman designed building is a listed monument.

The Franciscan Church belonged to the former Franciscan Monastery and is now an Evangelical Lutheran parish church. The monastery was founded in 1281 but ceased to exist in 1548 as a result of the Reformation. The monastery buildings, which had been voluntarily abandoned, first housed a Latin school and then a flat for the widows of the parish priests. After 1805, the buildings were used, among other things, as a salt warehouse. Parts of the complex (cloister, refectory, etc.) were demolished, and much of the inventory was destroyed or sold.

The Cathedral of Frascati was built from 1599 on the plans of the architect Ottaviano Mascherino (1536-1606) to cope with the increase in the city's population, which had become too large for the parish church of Santa Maria in Vivario. The construction was financed by an initial contribution from the Holy See, donations from the parishioners and, from 1608, by taxes on the famous local wine. The completion of the first works dates back to 1610. The present Baroque façade dates from 1696-1700 and is the work of Girolamo Fontana. The choir was rebuilt in 1703 and the side campaniles with clocks were added in 1747.

The 1929 consecrated church Frauenfrieden in Frankfurt/Main was financed by women for the purpose of remembering the victims of the Great War and as a prayer for peace. In 1916, the Catholic women's rights activist, politician and chairperson of the Catholic German Women's Association Hedwig Dransfeld (1871-1925) formulated the idea of having a church commemorating the fallen of the war financed exclusively by women. The church was planned by architect Hans Herkommer. In 2020 the church was restored and the liturgical interior redesigned by the artist Tobias Kammerer.

The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Old Town of Munich, or "Frauenkirche", is Munich Cathedral since 1821 and is one of the most recognisable monuments of the city. The building was built at the end of the 15th century in late Gothic style.