At the southern entrance to the town of Mandas, in a dominant position on the rolling hills below, the Convent of the Minor Observant Franciscan Friars was built in the early 16th century, an austere and imposing architectural compendium, built around the church of San Francesco, now deconsecrated and used as an important library. The village was enriched with religious buildings until the end of the 18th century, when the friars had to leave it following the suppression of the religious orders.

Among these, on today's Piazza Carlo Alberto, the church of San Cristoforo was built in the 17th century (initially dedicated to the Virgin of the Rosary), adjacent to the church of San Giacomo (today's parish church). It hosted the "del Rosario" and "della Vergine d'Itria" brotherhoods (both extinct) and today it is also deconsecrated. After the conclusion of the conservative restoration, in an atmosphere made even more evocative by the museum layout, the former religious building houses the collections of spectacular sacred and cult objects created between the 16th and 18th centuries by great masters, painters, sculptors , goldsmiths.

Welcome to the Museum of Sacred Art "Peregrinatio Fidei, the path to Santiago".