Chiesa di San Francesco
Seventeenth-century friary church perched above a fishing harbor, its altar holding a disputed Crucifixion.
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This guide to the Chiesa di San Francesco in Cinque Terre begins in seventeenth-century Monterosso, a fishing village divided against itself, and the hilltop it handed to a band of Capuchin friars. You'll meet Gian Fabio Squarciafico, a Genoese nobleman who traded his title for a habit, and look at a painting attributed to Antoon van Dyck hanging in a house of men who owned nothing. Best heard in the churchyard, with the village rooftops below you.
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