The San Fortunato church and convent are located along the road between Montefalco and Trevi, in a place rich in Roman remains. The structure has a four-sided portico against which the convent was built, on the remains of a Lombard fortress, which later was occupied by the Trinci lords of Foligno, and finally destroyed.
The portico leads to the church, which was an important medieval parish church, dating back in part to the 12th century and remodelled several times. The church has a Romanesque style with a single nave and a square apse; it presents important works and frescoes, some attributed to Benozzo Gozzoli.
According to a legend, the body of San Fortunato, evangelizer of the 4th-5th century and patron saint of Montefalco, was moved to the site of the current church, where the bishop of Spoleto consecrated a basilica at the beginning of the 5th century.
Along the north side of the portico is the Chapel of Roses, frescoed in 1512 by Tiberio d’Assisi. In the nearby wood there are the Caves of San Fortunato, which are a place of Christian worship of very ancient origin.
