Lower Basilica Di San Francesco In Assissi, Italy Royalty-Free Stock Image

The main entrance to the Lower Basilica di San Francesco is through an ornate Gothic doorway built between 1280 and 1300, and later enclosed with a simple Renaissance style porch of 1487. Set in the tympanum of the Gothic doorway is an ornate rose window which has been called the eye of the most beautiful church in the world. The Papal Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Order of Friars Minor—commonly known as the Franciscan Order—in Assisi, Italy.