At the far end of the deepest and most picturesque cove on Rab, Sv.Eufemija, nestles the Franciscan monastery of the same name.The names of the cove and the monastery derive from the small Church of Sv. Eufemija (St.Euphemia) which was first mentioned already in the 13th century. Consequently, it has an Early-Christian floor plan. It was erected in honor of this 3rd-century martyr from Chalcedon. This monastery is a typical Franciscan architectural complex which perfectly merges with the natural environment, complementing it by its architectural excellence. The religious essence of every monastery, including this one, is its church. Most probably in the beginning the Church of Sv.Eufemija was here as a simple one-nave building, which was rebuilt several times. Nonetheless,it is certain that it was earlier than the 13th century when it was first mentioned. As a display of particular reverence for St. Bernardin of Siena, who was beatified at that time, a new church bearing his name was built as an integral part of the monastery complex. The church is an one-nave monastic building with a rectangular floor plan and a square chancel. On the principal alter in the church chancel there is a polyptych within a wooden carved and gilded Late-Gothic frame. In the year 1458 this polyptych was painted by the brothers Antonio and Bartolomeo Vivarini, the most prominent members of the Venetian painting workshop at that time. Flanking the south side of the chancel today stands the Chapel of Sveti Kri` (Holy Cross). The wooden altar in the same chapel displays atruly magnificent wooden Crucifix on its east wall. In 1669, a new ceiling coffering was installed with 27 painted scenes from the life of St. Francis and other major Franciscan Saints.
In the cloister, in the middle of which is an impressive stone wellhead, are the already-mentioned inscriptions and tombstone that record the foundation of the monastery, a Roman tombstone the sarcophagus of Magdalena Budri{i} the founder of the Rab Convent of Franciscan Nuns who died there in 1532. The monastery library has over 7,000 books from the fifteenth century to the present, and the number is constantly growing. We must especially mention the six thick manuscripts by Fra Odorik Badurina (1896-1969), Velika kamporska kronika (The Great Kampor Chronicle). The monastery museum also has excellent paintings, choral manuscripts, incunabulus, a parchment about the foundation of the monastery, a valuable collection of old coins. In 1989, in the renewed older church of St.Euphemia, a permanent exhibition of paintings by Fra Ambroz Testen (1897-1984) was opened. He was a self-taught artist who during the whole period of his stay in this monastery painted.