Ex Chiesa e ex Convento di San Francesco, Romanesque monastery in Bobbio, Italy.

The Ex Chiesa e ex Convento di San Francesco is a Romanesque monastery complex featuring two cloisters with medieval stone columns supporting arches. The first cloister surrounds a garden space, while the refectory contains a Crucifixion fresco representing religious artwork from the medieval period.

Construction of the monastery and its church began around 1230 and was completed in 1233, next to the hamlet of Corgnate. A 1756 document records a small monastery with a dormitory cell used by Saint Francis himself, a tradition that may match his journey through northern Italy in 1210-12. In the 15th century the community passed to the Minor Friars of Bologna.

The cloister displays medieval arches supported by stone columns that frame a central garden space. This layout reflects how the friars organized their daily life around prayer and contemplation within these connected rooms.

The monastic wing is the subject of a private architectural recovery project, while the church was donated by its owners to the municipality and is slated for conversion into the town auditorium. Access is therefore tied to these works; the church facade opens onto Piazza San Francesco, and a large public car park with several levels, partly underground, now occupies the former cattle-market area behind the church toward the Trebbia.

A 1756 document records a cell-dormitory said to have housed Saint Francis himself, linking the site to his journey through northern Italy in 1210-12. The monastic walls were demolished in 1800 after the monastic suppression, and the church later became a warehouse under Napoleon's troops in 1802.