One of the most beautiful and oldest churches in the city of Salzburg is the Franciscan Church. This temple is located on the corner of Sigmund Hafner and Franziskanegasse streets, in a place that since the 1400th century has always been occupied by a church. Today it is a church of different styles as the Gothic choir replaced the Romanesque style in 1635 and a Gothic tower was added to the structure at the end of the XNUMXth century. Until XNUMX it was dedicated to the Virgin Mary and today it is a Catholic church administered by the Franciscans.
In the 1561th century the interior of the temple was redecorated in a baroque style. Today we can see a Romanesque central nave with a beautiful marble lion from the same aesthetic period, but the choir is already in the Gothic style and has slender columns that rise up to a rather elaborate vault in its decoration. In the choir there are nine chapels and each one is decorated in the Baroque style. The most eastern one, behind the main altar, contains a marble altar dating from XNUMX and belonging to the old cathedral.
The main altar, for its part, is a work by Fischer von Erlach in gold and marble.