Piran Minorite Monastery
The Piran Minorite Monastery is a Roman Catholic monastery located in Piran, a historical port town on the coast of the Adriatic Sea in southwestern Slovenia. It is operated by the Order of Friars Minor Conventual.
History
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 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.Minoriti so sedanjo cerkev sv. Frančiška pričeli graditi leta 1301 in jo končali leta 1318