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A convent and a small church were built here beginning in 1230, but after new land adjacent to these structures was acquired, the new church we see today was completed in 1438. The complex was built outside the walls of the time, near where once stood the Porta
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The unfinished grey stone brick facade with a peaked portal and a single small oculus leads into a well organized interior nave with elaborate side altars. In the lunette over the doorway there is a fresco by
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until their suppression in 1800. The church fell into disrepair, and the most of the convent was destroyed to build new roads in 1817-1819.
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