On the north side of the Church of San Francesco, there is an entrance that leads into the Farfense Chapel, the only structure of the 13th-century monastery that has survived the different transformations.
Once used as a burial site for local noble families, today it consists of a single area with a Gothic rib vault divided into eight compartments which in turn are divided into two parts by decorative bands. The beautiful 15th-century frescoes, probably coming from the UmbriaEmilia school of Antonio Alberti from Ferrara, depict in sixteen spaces the myth of the True Cross, a recurring theme in Franciscan churches. This cycle of paintings of great emotional impact, interweaving truth and myth, tells the complex history of the wood of the cross on which Christ died. The frescoes in the wall compartments, probably painted by other artists in a subsequent period, depict scenes of the Death and Assumption of Mary and that of St Francis receiving the stigmata.
In addition to the various inscriptions, most of which had a burial theme, it is worth noting the burial stone of the Alaleona family that depicts a knight lying with a sword on his left side.
