{"id":92667,"date":"2024-03-20T16:49:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/monumenti\/st-francis-cultural-center-and-church\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:06:13","slug":"st-francis-cultural-center-and-church","status":"publish","type":"monumento","link":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/monumenti\/st-francis-cultural-center-and-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Church and Cloister of St. Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The convent complex of St. Francis traces its roots back to the second half of the 16th century, when the Friars Minor Observant left the church of Loreto to build a new site on the outskirts of Ozieri. Construction of the convent lasted for nearly two centuries, while the church was consecrated as early as 1575.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Between 1691 and 1696, the complex underwent major expansion and renovation work in conjunction with its use as a Regional College for the training of missionaries leaving for foreign countries. The church was also renovated during those years.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following the Rattazzi law, the convent was suppressed in 1867 and turned first into barracks, then into a school building. Only in 1936 was the church returned to worship.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The building has a single nave plan with side chapels. The interior houses an extraordinary polychrome wooden altar, painted in green and pure gold: one of the largest and most valuable in Sardinia. Made after 1691 thanks to the contribution of the noble Arca family (whose coat of arms with the double-headed eagle is visible on the top), it represents an important example of island Baroque art.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contemporary in taste, however, are the frescoes painted in 1979 by Polish painter Eugene Bardsky.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The convent retains a cloister porticoed on three sides, with pillars and cross vaults that once connected the different rooms on the ground floor &#8211; kitchen, refectory and <\/span><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">cellarium<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. On the upper floor were the chapter house and dormitory. Among the few surviving artistic works is the late 18th-century fresco on the vault of the current lecture hall, depicting St. Bonaventure surrounded by allegories of the arts and sciences.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1982, a major renovation of the complex, now home to the San Francesco Cultural Center and the Ozieri Municipal Library, was carried out.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":110196,"template":"","meta":{"COMUNE":[],"note":[],"indirizzo":[],"accessibilita_mezzi":[],"coordinates":[],"images":[],"adesioni":[],"footnotes":""},"monumento_tipologia":[684,676,691],"accessibilita":[706],"accessibilita_mezzi":[],"class_list":["post-92667","monumento","type-monumento","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","monumento_tipologia-biblioteche-e-archivi-en","monumento_tipologia-museo-en","monumento_tipologia-religione-e-culto-en","accessibilita-accesibilita-al-monumento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti\/92667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/monumento"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti\/92667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110198,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti\/92667\/revisions\/110198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"monumento_tipologia","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumento_tipologia?post=92667"},{"taxonomy":"accessibilita","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/accessibilita?post=92667"},{"taxonomy":"accessibilita_mezzi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/accessibilita_mezzi?post=92667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}