The sanctuary and the Convent of San Giacomo (St James) were built in places that hosted St. Francis of Assisi.
It is near the seventeenth-century church of Sacro Speco.
The monastery consists of a single nave fourteenth century church, a monastery dating from the thirteenth century, and a refectory.
They are all decorated with frescoes of the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Inside the church is a tablet, dating from the fourteenth or fifteenth century, depicting the Madonna della Grazie and Child with St. Joseph.
A seventeenth century fresco of the Poggio Bustone landscape flanked by St. Francis of Assisi and St. Anthony of Padua, between the two an unidentified pontiff.
A staircase in the monastery leads to the hermitage carved into the rock.
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