The imposing eighteenth-century facade of St. Francis church has large windows rich in typical Baroque style ornaments.
The interior with a nave decorated with plaster stucco and with side chapels, displays numerous paintings of the Neapolitan school. To be viewed in particular: "the Immaculate's devotional symbols", by Antonio Stabile di Potenza (1580) and the famous altarpiece attributed to Lazzaro Bastiani, made in 1470 and housed in the choir.
A trap door leads into the underground crypt of SS. Peter and Paul, witnessed since 1185 and used in the fourteenth century as a burial ground. The twelfth-thirteenth century frescoes representing "St. Vincent", the "Madonna and Child enthroned between Gabriel and Raphael angels" and the "Pope Urban II", sitting on the throne, during his stay in Matera, from October 1093 to April 1094.
The square in front of the church hosts a wide archaeological area in which you can see holes used for hut poles and circular pits used to store food, similar to those of the Murgia's Neolithic villages.
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