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The factory is characterized by a single central nave enlivened by side chapels and a bright apse that houses inside a polychrome marble altar. The architectural style presents simple and essential lines and gives the building an austere and inviting appearance to prayer. An ancient local tradition attributed the foundation of this complex to Saint Francis himself; certainly the church was already planned during the papacy of Callisto III, and was inaugurated and consecrated in 1641.
Two wooden sculptures, by San Francesco from 1782 by Buonfiglio and Sant'Antonio di Padova from 1700 by G. Colombo and the oil painting depicting "San Michele che atterra il demonio", placed on the vault of the Presbytery, are kept inside these walls. Next to the church there is the former Convent of the Conventual Fathers, then Kindergarten entrusted to the care of the Sisters of Sant'Anna. Beautiful and characteristic is the small cloister, delineated by round arches and pillars in stone work, has at its center a well; on the first floor there are the characteristic corridors with the cells of the friars and two beautiful loggias of the late sixteenth century.
