Piran Minorite Monastery

The Piran Minorite Monastery (Slovene: Minoritski samostan sv. Frančiška v Piranu) 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.

Piran Minorite Monastery
Religion
Governing body	Order of Friars Minor Conventual
Location
Location	Bolniška ulica Piran, Slovenia
Geographic coordinates	45°31′42.94″N 13°34′11.68″E

History

Cloister of the Piran Minorite Monastery

Arches 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.

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.

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.

Musical events

The atrium of the monastery has been for decades the venue for Musical Evenings of Piran events.