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We have studied stellar and gaseous kinematics as well as stellar populationproperties in the center of the early-type barred galaxy NGC 4245 by means ofintegral-field spectroscopy. We have found a chemically distinct compact core,more metal-rich by a factor of 2.5 than the bulge, and a ring of young starswith the radius of 300 pc. Current star formation proceeds in this ring; itslocation corresponds to the inner Lindblad resonance of the large-scale bar.The mean age of stars in the chemically distinct core is significantly youngerthan the estimate by Sarzi et al. (2005) for the very center, within R=0.25",made with the HST spectroscopy data. We conclude that the `chemically distinctcore' is in fact an ancient ultra-compact star forming ring with radius lessthan 100 pc which marks perhaps the past position of the inner Lindbladresonance. In general, the pattern of star formation history in the center ofthis early-type gas-poor galaxy confirms the predictions of dynamical modelsfor the secular evolution of a stellar-gaseous disk under the influence of abar.

NGC 4245: one or two bars, and where does the gas inflow stop?