The Franciscan Art Gallery was inaugurated on November 7, 1968, in the rooms on the upper floor of the sixteenth-century residence of the wealthy Lecce nobleman, Fulgenzio della Monica. It includes a collection of paintings coming from the convents of the Minorite province of Salento, together with other works of art worthy of preservation. The collector to whom we owe the protection of this artistic heritage is the Franciscan Father Egidio De Tommaso, who carefully collected the works produced by anonymous local friars between the 17th and 18th centuries.
