Southeast of Glavni trg is the yellow Franciscan Church of St Leonard, originally built by monks fleeing the Turks in Bosnia in 1472, and the attached Franciscan monastery, which has a library containing some 12,000 volumes, including 12th-century incunabula.
Franciscan Church of St Leonard
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