It stands on a hill in the immediate vicinity of Foligno, along the road to Sassovivo, Church-Convent of St. Bartholomew, which takes its name from a nearby source (Source Marana), still active. It was built from 1408 by Ugolino Trinci and completed in 1415 by his son Nicholas, with the aim of providing hospitality to the friars of the regular observance sponsored by the Franciscan friar Paoluccio Trinci. The current facade of the church, whose design has been erroneously attributed to the architect Foligno Giuseppe Piermarini, was built between 1731 and 1736 by the master mason Angelo Giacobetti and is considered "one of the most interesting manifestations of religious architecture of 700 in Foligno". The prospectus has undergone restoration in 1952 and in 1991, after being damaged by a lightning strike in 1934. The church, baroque, was extended in 1600-1700, together with the cloister and the Convent. Inside are worthy of mention, in the chapel of the left (Chapel of St. Bartholomew), table with Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, last work of Nicholas Student, completed in 1503 Lattanzio and his son, in the eardrum, San Bartolomeo, perhaps by the same Lattanzio. On the altar is a painting depicting the Madonna and Child with Saints (sec. XVII). The chapel on the right, symmetrically arranged in front of the chapel of St. Bartholomew, was erected in 1676 to accommodate a reproduction, on a small scale, of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Worthy of note is the painting attributed to Thomas Nasiniraffigurante The Saints John of Capistrano and Pasquale Baylon; altar, The Virgin Mary and the saints Joachim and Anna, painting by Felice Damiani and, the sides, statues of San Bartolomeo and San Francesco. To the left of the presbytery, The Veronica, Nicholas said the board Circignani Pomarancio and, Destra, canvas with Blessed Anthony Stroud. Behind the altar you can see traces of a fifteenth-century painting attributed to Thomas Bartholomew representative of a large Crucifixion.
Down the aisle, fifteen stations of the Via Crucis, work begun in 1732 and remained incomplete at the death of the author, Terms of Hippolytus among the minority group Coceto, and statues of four Doctors of the Church, made in 1705.

Other works are to be admired: the wooden choir style and meticulous, in sacristy, cabinets and genuflessori carved and inlaid well executed (sec. XVII) and ceiling frescoed with the Virgin Mary and saints Francis, Bartholomew, Anthony of Padua and Feliciano, work attributed to the "Painter Populate".
L’entrance to the Convent, whose structure has remained virtually unchanged since the mid-seventeenth century, was decorated by Brother Terms of Hippolytus Coceto (Orvieto) with a cycle of frescoes that have as subject Stories of the Blessed Angela of Foligno; the scrolls below illustrate, in metrical form, content of the episodes.

The cloister, six arches on each side supported by polygonal columns, was rebuilt between 1712 and 1714 by the master mason Anthony Bridges.
The side of the cloister more valuable is the primitive convent, built by Nicholas Trinci (about 1406-15) and wanted by Brother Paoluccio Trinci. Also to brother Ippolito Terms of Coceto was responsible for the tempera decoration of the cloister with a cycle of 24 Stories of Blessed Paoluccio Trinci and decoration of the oval with representations of saints and blessed of the Franciscan. By the same artist also painted in the refectory: Christ served by angels (1721), in the bottom wall, and l 'Annunciation (1722), in the counter. Worthy of mention is, finally, a rich library with a library built in 1702 Giuseppe Spinelli by the artisan and decorated by the painter Giovan Battista Pagliarini.

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