Cloister of the Piran Minorite MonasteryArches of the cloister
Early history
The church of st. Catherine of Siena was already built in 1301, when a nearby monastery church of st. Francis of Assisi begun to be built by Greyfriars. Historiographers of the monastery (Trani, Granić in Frasson) wrote that Giuseppe Tartini received his first musical education in the monastery where his parents hired a room for him after 1700 A.D. From 1954 to 1990, it was nationalized and with denationalization it was given back to the church in 1996.[1]
Minoriti so sedanjo cerkev sv. Frančiška pričeli graditi leta 1301 in jo končali leta 1318
Tartini family
At 300th anniversary of Giuseppe Tartini's birth, blueprints of old gravestones including the one belonging to Tartini's family, were found in the monastery's archives.[1]
Architecture
Leading to the cloister there is a half-arched portal adorned with richly carved columns, bearing an architrave with an inscription and coats of arms.