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Couvent de franciscains Saint-François de Zuani

Ampriani, Haute-Corse, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
Les façades et toitures du couvent, à l'exception de l'extension récente le long de la façade est du cloître ; l'intérieur de la cellule présumée de Saint-Théophile de Corte (cad. A 301, 302) : inscription par arrêté du 28 février 2008
Protection dates
2008/02/28 : inscrit MH
Type
couvent
Main period of construction
milieu 16e siècle, 2e quart 18e siècle
Dates
1730
Ownership
propriété privée
Commune
Ampriani
Département
Haute-Corse
Region
Corse
Country
France
Coordinates
42.26029, 9.35554
Mérimée reference
PA2B000011

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1783 map "Corse." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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The Ministère de la Culture's notice

Mentionnée vers 1540 comme ermitage capucin et autorisé en 1547 par bulle du pape Paul III, l'édifice est caractéristique des couvents franciscains corses. Achevé en 1730, c'est un quadrilatère régulier autour d'un cloître, sommé d'un clocher baroque, qui aurait été bâti à l'emplacement d'une chapelle primitive. A la Révolution, le couvent devient bien national. Au 19e siècle, les cellules de l'aile occidentale sont transformées en séchoirs.

English translation

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Mentioned around 1540 as a Capuchin hermitage and authorised in 1547 by bull of Pope Paul III, the building is characteristic of Corsican Franciscan convents. Completed in 1730, it is a regular quadrilateral around a cloister, crowned with a Baroque bell tower, which would have been built on the site of a primitive chapel. At the Revolution, the convent becomes national property. In the 19th century, the cells of the western wing are converted into drying rooms.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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