Pinacoteca d'Arte Francescana (Franciscan Art Gallery), Lecce

The Pinacoteca d'Arte Francescana (Franciscan Art Gallery) is an art gallery in Lecce .

The Roberto Caracciolo Franciscan Art Gallery, owned by the Franciscan friars, is housed in the 16th century Palazzo Fulgenzio. Structured in nine exhibition halls, arranged on over 400 m² of museum area, it collects sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century paintings, for the most part deriving from Luca Giordano and Solimena and coming from Apulian Franciscan convents. Among the most illustrious signatures appears that of Oronzo Tiso and Serafino Elmo, as well as other works attributed to Giuseppe De Ribera and Francesco Fracanzano . The itinerary ends with the rooms dedicated to the 20th century with the works of Raffaello Pants and Ezechiele Leandro, Giuseppe Casciaro, and Stanislao Sidoti.

On the lower floor is the wing of sacred statues which preserves 19th-century Lecce papier-mâché works and a sacred conversation attributed to Stefano da Putignano.

The sixteenth-century building also houses the Nymphaeum of Fulgenzio, a place built to cool off on the sultry and torrid days of the Salento summer, as it is refrigerated by the gushing waters of the fountains.