Going down Ancha street, we carry on to the right along the perpendicular which isSan Francisco Solano street, commonly called The Saint's street. In the place where the house in which Solano lived, known as the wasteland of Sotollan, this church was dedicated to the patron saint and son of Montilla, built in 1681. The initiative was that of the Graduate Francisco Isidro de Alba, auditor to the Royal Chancellery of Granada, which in 1644 had bought the house, with his personal contribution of six thousand ducats and four thousand collected from the neighbourhood. For the canonization celebrations in 1727, the Local Town Council paid for the enlargement of the choir and in 1773 and 1777 it was renovated by the house of Medinaceli.

The building, of neoclassic appearance and built with the ashlars brought from Fuente del Alamo quarry, has three naves formed by semicircular arches supported by square pillars and a barrel vault with an entrance hall covered with semicircular arches over limestone columns of Tuscan style.

The butler Francisco Ramirez Muñoz, chaplain to the marquise of Priego acquired the main statue in Granada in 1689.

The main altarpiece of great baroque exuberance joins thick Salomonic columns decorated with vine garlands and angel figures under plinths, With the main figure in the central niche, it includes images of San Francisco de Asis, San Antonio, San Andres and San Jose. It was the maestro Gaspar Lorenzo de las Cobos who carried out this piece of work in 1728.

There are some altarpieces of great quality, one of them by Pedro de Mena, the image of the Patrona Nuestra Señora de la Aurora, brought from Granada is attributed to Jose de Mora from 1699.

The Virgen de la Soledad, coming from the San Agustin church, canvases some of which refer to the life of san Francisco Solano and some valuable gold and silver work round off the wealth of this church.

It was in this place that San Francisco Solano was born on 10th March 1549, son of Mateo Sánchez Solano and Ana Jimenez, which is why the saint is known by his second surname from his father's side. Solano studied in the Compañia de Jesus and later entered the Franciscan monastery of San Lorenzo, of which only the arch or access door to the sixteenth century stone cutting is still kept albeit in bad condition. He preached in different Andalusian areas and later embarked as a missionary to the New World. He travelled all of South America and died in Lima on 14th july 1610. From very early dates and while still alive he enjoyed a great popularity. In 1647 he was designated patron saint of Montilla in conjunction with his canonization in 1726.