Church of St. Francis of Assisi

Fibbiano Montanino is a small medieval village perched on a slope; the church, built under the hegemony of Santa Maria di Albiano, became an independent parish church only in 1885. At the end of the construction works of the church, in 1731, the building had a simple rectangular plan with a gabled façade and a centrally positioned entrance door. Due to the increase in population and the consequent need for more space to accommodate the faithful, at the end of the 19th century work began on the expansion of the place of worship with the construction of two mirrored chapels with the aim of transforming the rectangular plan into a Greek cross. In 1867 the chapel on the left side wall dedicated to the Santissima Maria del Carmine was completed, while in 1900 work was completed on the one in honor of San Giuseppe in a mirrored position. The planimetric conformation achieved after this intervention is the one that still exists today, the interventions that followed during the 20th and 21st centuries were in fact only of a restoration and extraordinary maintenance nature. In 1926 the building was restored and in particular the facade was redone, in 1975 the roofing was revised and integrated, where necessary, while in 2006 the waterproofing layer of the roof was replaced.

Plant
The church has a Greek cross plan.

Structural system
The structural system is in continuous load-bearing stone masonry. The wooden gabled roof of the hall is higher than the one, of the same shape, in correspondence with the side chapels.

Coverings
The roof, gabled both in the hall and on the side chapels, has a covering in brick with tiles and flat roof tiles.

Bell tower
The bell tower, a structure independent from the church, has a square plan with a single bell chamber, open on four sides, with an arched window and a dovetailed crenellated top.

Prospectuses
The side fronts are left in exposed stone masonry. The gabled façade with a centrally positioned entrance door is plastered and painted in pastel yellow. Above the entrance is an archivolt with a sacred image in bas-relief, and above, a sealed mullioned window encloses two statuettes.

Decorative elements
Along the side walls, pilasters, painted in gray, alternate with white capitals with volutes in a similar Ionic style. The barrel vaults, with lunettes of the original central body, are painted with a light blue background with pastel yellow bands at the corners. The chapels are instead characterized by cross vaults painted with a darker light blue background with frames of geometric motifs in shades of red and orange.

Interior floors
The central corridor of the hall and the presbytery have a floor in black and white hexagonal cement tiles. The remaining part of the hall and the chapels are instead characterized by square terracotta tiles.