Chiesa di San Francesco
The Church of San Francesco has an original structure that dates back to Roman times, as attested by its thirteenth century apse. In the sixteenth century, however, there have been some major extension works. The church has a remarkable and elegant stone portal. In the Montefusco Town Hall there is an oil painting depicting the village in 1880 where there was a solid and impressive architectural complex that resembles a fortress, it was the convent of St. Francesco dei Padri Minori Conventuali who connected the church of Saint Maria della Piazza with two slender tower bells and mighty walls of defense. Little remains of the convent, and all the news come from a 1711 manuscript of the monastery archive and kept in the offices of the Montefusco Registry. In the church there are various works of art, including two lunettes of the fifteenth century painted on gilded wood, depicting St. Apollonio and St. Biagio. There are also wooden statues and paintings of the crowning with thorns of Jesus, that testifies the place where the relic of the Crown of the Holy Thorn was kept. With the suppression of the adjoining convent, the relic was entrusted to the canons of St. Giovanni del Vaglio and then stolen in 1975.