San Francesco d'Assisi, Baroque church in Piazza San Francesco, Matera, Italy.

San Francesco d'Assisi is a Baroque church on Piazza San Francesco in Matera, displaying classical Baroque features in its architecture and facade. The exterior walls carry three prominent statues: the Virgin Mary in the center with Saint Francis and Saint Anthony on either side.

The church's oldest core is a hypogean chapel dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul, reached today through a trapdoor from a side chapel; its fresco depicts Pope Urban II's 1093 visit to Matera. The name is linked to chroniclers' reports of a visit by Saint Francis in 1218. The original structure dates to the first half of the 13th century, was enlarged in the 15th century, and took its present form in the 18th century with the Baroque façade by Vito Valentino and Tommaso Pennetta.

The name recalls a visit by Saint Francis of Assisi reported by some chroniclers in 1218. The church stands on Piazza San Francesco, and the older underground chapel of Saints Peter and Paul, reached through a hatch from a side chapel, can still be visited.

The church stands on Piazza San Francesco in central Matera, a short walk from the Sassi. The underground chapel of Saints Peter and Paul is reached through a trapdoor in one of the side chapels, so ask on site whether it can be visited. The organ above the cantoria was built by Fratelli Ruffatti in 1955 and modified in 1978.

The cantoria behind the main altar has a parapet made from the compartments of a 15th-century polyptych: nine tempera paintings on wood attributed to Lazzaro Bastiani. Above it stands a pipe organ built by Fratelli Ruffatti in 1955 and modified by the same firm in 1978, with electric transmission and 22 registers on two manuals and pedal.