The patron saint of Citerna is Saint Michael the Archangel, celebrated on 8 May. The parish church dedicated to him, of 18th-century appearance, holds in its right transept the Crucifixion by Niccolò Circignani, from 1570, and in the second chapel on the left two notable sculptural works: a terracotta statue of a Madonna and Child attributed to Luca della Robbia the Younger, and a relief, also in glazed terracotta, of a Madonna and Child attributed instead to Andrea della Robbia.
In the 14th century the town was subject alternately to the Tarlati di Pietramala and the Malatesta, before being incorporated into the Papal States in 1463. The church of San Francesco is the town's richest in works of art: it features the terracotta Madonna and Child by Donatello, rediscovered in the early 2000s, along with the Madonna and Child with Saints begun by Luca Signorelli and completed after his death by Papacello, the Christ in Glory by Raffaellino del Colle, and the grand Deposition by the same Niccolò Circignani.
