It is known since 1210 of this church, that 1273 has become the order of the Servants of Mary Convent.
The red and white striped façade and ogival portal (1402) But back to the early fifteenth, presumably when it was enlarged and renovated. The interior has three naves, a dome with an octagonal base built in the late fifteenth century. The present layout dates back to the third decade of the eighteenth century interventions, the architect Soratini, performed between 1721 and 1729 dal muratore Foligno Costantino Giomboni.
On the entrance wall is an organ (1857) Domenico Fedeli with carved wooden balustrade of the eighteenth century and a polychrome wooden statue of St. Anthony of Padua dating from the late fifteenth century.
In the left aisle, on the first altar, you look at the votive painting depicting San Rocco, attributed to Pierantonio Mezzastris (1480-1481 about).
Deserve, also, attention of the fresco 'Assumption of the Virgin, Nicola Nasini (1716-1718) that adorns the dome, some valuable furniture, including a lectern, Caspar and the work of Pollio, altar, an architectural baroque carved wood and decorated with white and gold statues depicting a Our Lady of Sorrows the center and St. James the Elder and St. James the Less.
The choir has a rectangular, completely painted with works dating from the eighteenth century, with two rows of pews eighteenth.
The convent adjoining belonged to the order of the Servants of Mary to 1994 and has grown from its origins in the XIII century. Inside the monastery are worth mentioning Pity carved in wood between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and a large fresco by Giovanni Battista Michelini, The Virgin on Mount Senario in the act of delivering the dress to the seven holy founders of the order served.
In the chapter house next to the sacristy elegant mullioned windows open onto the four-century cloister, completed during the seventeenth century (perhaps 1611) with the construction of the second level. Overall, it is forty-eight arches that form tunnels. At the center of the cloister was placed (1660) a statue of St. Philip Benizi, hours in the cemetery house.
The decoration of the twenty-four lunettes placed along the first order consists of Scenes from the Life of St. Philip Benizi, performed between the 1657 and 1659 by Giovan Battista Michelini.

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