San Francesco, Religious building in Pontremoli, Italy.

San Francesco stands near the Zambeccari bridge at Via Reisoli 3. Its interior was redesigned in the early 18th century with stucco ornaments by Giovan Battista Natali, who added the entrance porch, while his son Francesco frescoed the chapels of San Francesco and Sant'Orsola. The church preserves a 15th-century polychrome marble relief of the Madonna and Child attributed to Agostino di Duccio.

This church was built after the demolition of the earlier parish church of Saints Giovanni and Colombano, replacing it as the town's main religious center. It became part of a larger Franciscan convent complex that served the community for centuries.

The parish title of Saints John and Columbanus passed to San Francesco in 1913, when the old parish church of San Colombano was demolished to build the Ponte Zambeccari. The name Columbanus recalls the original church that depended on the Abbey of San Caprasio di Aulla in 1154 as a hospice for pilgrims on the Via Francigena. Inside, look for the wooden choir carved between 1506 and 1508 by the Parma intarsia master Luchino de' Bonati.

The church is located in the town center of Pontremoli and is easily accessible on foot. Opening hours are regular, though visitors should check locally as times may change seasonally.

The convent that houses the church is named after San Colombano, not San Francesco: it now holds the diocesan seminary, the Liceo Classico Vescovile and the Biblioteca Nazionale Serra. The parish itself came from the old church of San Colombano, which stood here until its demolition in 1913 for the Zambeccari bridge.