The Dominican Church of San Giacomo Apostolo
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Forlì
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, Italy
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Built during the 13th century in the southern part of the town, it hosted friars of the Dominican Order
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216 in France...
, hence it was better known as Church of San Domenico.
Monastery
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was enlarged.
Between 1715 and 1719, the church interior was restored according to the late Baroque canons.
With the last and final abolishment of the convent in 1867 by Napoleon, the church was expoliated while the monastery was used as a shed for military vehicles. Then it was subject to a hard and progressive deterioration which, in 1978, brought to the collapse of the roof and the church demolition.
The building of San Domenico is currently undergoing a vast recovery project and a part of it has become the seat of a museum
Museum
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