San Francesco, Baroque convent in Brugnato, Italy

San Francesco is a baroque convent in Brugnato featuring symmetrical facades and ornamental details throughout. The layout organizes spaces around a central courtyard, where prayer areas and residential rooms for the community are grouped.

The whole complex, convent and adjacent church of San Francesco, was completed in 1635. The Passionist congregation ran it from 1843 until 2015, when a shortage of religious forced the order to close the house; the last two fathers left on 8 September 2015.

The complex takes its name from the adjacent church of San Francesco, which has a single nave and five altars holding paintings and canvases from the 17th and 18th centuries. From 1843 to 2015 the convent belonged to the Congregation of the Passionists, who left on 8 September 2015 because of a shortage of religious.

The complex stands along provincial road 566 in the Val di Vara, in the municipality of Brugnato. The convent building is arranged around a quadrangular cloister, with three dormitories, a refectory and a library; the adjoining church of San Francesco has a single nave and five altars. The Passionists left on 8 September 2015, so the religious house is no longer occupied by the order.

The convent was run by the Passionists from 1843 until 2015, when a shortage of religious brothers led the order to close the house. The last two fathers left on 8 September 2015, ending 172 years of continuous presence in Brugnato.