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Singularly slender appears the silhouette of this beautiful baroque church. It seems that already around the year 1050 there was a place of worship dedicated to San Martino; while the title to San Francesco is certain as early as the fourteenth century. The church was built in the 15th century and modified in the 18th century.
The elegant clear stone facade is characterized by the scanning of the two levels by means of 4 pilasters: the first in Ionic order, the second in Corinthian order. In the center a single stone portal surmounted by a window; while on the right side stands the bell tower. The exterior is therefore simple, as opposed to the interior, where the rococo style dominates and the white stucco amplifies the space of the single nave.
Here are kept several eighteenth-century works of some interest: two of the five wooden groups of the Mysteries, the Crowning of Thorns and Calvary; the Cantoria, with a beautiful rococo organ of 1755 by Domenico Antonio Rossi; the Glorification of Mary, painted on wood by the lucerino Michele Calitri which acts as a false ceiling along the wide and only nave; the canvas of San Gennaro by the Trojan painter-carver Giovanni Petruzzi, the three canvases by the Lucerino painter Giuseppe Farina; the Statue of San Francesco d'Assisi, work of the artist Giacomo Colombo.
