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4.8/5 (based on Google user reviews)
User Reviews
Laura (9 months ago)
A beautiful church, you get in for free when you purchase a ticket from Saint Matthews,Duomo Salerno
A beautiful church, you get in for free when you purchase a ticket from Saint Matthews,Duomo Salerno
Rider On Foot (9 months ago)
San Giorgio is the most beautiful baroque church in Salerno, full of frescoes of the highest quality. It was part of the convent of the Benedictine nuns, now the barracks of the Guardia di Finanza and the Carabinieri. It is one of the oldest monastic settlements in Salerno, dating back to the beginning of the 9th century. The remains of apse frescoes, recently discovered in the church, belong to this period. At the end of the 16th century, all the nuns from the other Benedictine monasteries in the city (Santa Sofia, San Michele and Santa Maria Maddalena) were transferred to San Giorgio.
San Giorgio is the most beautiful baroque church in Salerno, full of frescoes of the highest quality. It was part of the convent of the Benedictine nuns, now the barracks of the Guardia di Finanza and the Carabinieri. It is one of the oldest monastic settlements in Salerno, dating back to the beginning of the 9th century. The remains of apse frescoes, recently discovered in the church, belong to this period. At the end of the 16th century, all the nuns from the other Benedictine monasteries in the city (Santa Sofia, San Michele and Santa Maria Maddalena) were transferred to San Giorgio.
Vale Vici (10 months ago)
Cute place a lot of paintings on the wall worth a visit with the other 2
Cute place a lot of paintings on the wall worth a visit with the other 2
Leo Liu (2 years ago)
Very cute. Small but beautiful! Worth the visit.
Very cute. Small but beautiful! Worth the visit.
Ugo Terzi (Golfo di Salerno) (2 years ago)
San Giorgio, to which the church of the same name belongs, is one of the oldest monastic complexes in the city of Salerno, from the Lombard era, whose cultural influence can also be seen in the choice of dedication to the figure of a warrior saint. The first certain information dates back to a diploma from 819 which mentions a "cella Sancti Georgi infra salernitanam civitatem", dependent on the Benedictine Monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno. The entrance to the church goes almost unnoticed, as it is simple and linear. The external portal leads to a rectangular vestibule, divided into two parts by a round arch resting on two powerful pillars. The actual church is accessed by a stone portal from the Renaissance period, commissioned by the abbess Lucrezia Santomagno, which is striking for its refined wooden doors of an intense olive green color and golden friezes. The church has a single Latin cross nave covered by a completely frescoed barrel vault, equipped with four side chapels. At the intersection between the nave and the rectangular transept, onto which two other chapels open, the dome rises, also frescoed. The floor is covered with majolica tiles decorated with acanthus leaves, small flowers and a black and white micro-checkerboard geometric motif, under which lies a secret kept for centuries. In fact, under the floor of the current building, the original Lombard nucleus is preserved, revealed by a mechanism that allows the opening of five trapdoors arranged along the nave. What presents itself to the eyes is an evocative spectacle, capable of arousing an indescribable emotion: with the opening of the floor, a piece of history, of the city's past, still so vivid and current, comes to light. It is an apse frescoed with colors such as ocher, black, red. In the upper part there is a geometric braid motif, in the lower part a theory of Saints.
San Giorgio, to which the church of the same name belongs, is one of the oldest monastic complexes in the city of Salerno, from the Lombard era, whose cultural influence can also be seen in the choice of dedication to the figure of a warrior saint. The first certain information dates back to a diploma from 819 which mentions a "cella Sancti Georgi infra salernitanam civitatem", dependent on the Benedictine Monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno. The entrance to the church goes almost unnoticed, as it is simple and linear. The external portal leads to a rectangular vestibule, divided into two parts by a round arch resting on two powerful pillars. The actual church is accessed by a stone portal from the Renaissance period, commissioned by the abbess Lucrezia Santomagno, which is striking for its refined wooden doors of an intense olive green color and golden friezes. The church has a single Latin cross nave covered by a completely frescoed barrel vault, equipped with four side chapels. At the intersection between the nave and the rectangular transept, onto which two other chapels open, the dome rises, also frescoed. The floor is covered with majolica tiles decorated with acanthus leaves, small flowers and a black and white micro-checkerboard geometric motif, under which lies a secret kept for centuries. In fact, under the floor of the current building, the original Lombard nucleus is preserved, revealed by a mechanism that allows the opening of five trapdoors arranged along the nave. What presents itself to the eyes is an evocative spectacle, capable of arousing an indescribable emotion: with the opening of the floor, a piece of history, of the city's past, still so vivid and current, comes to light. It is an apse frescoed with colors such as ocher, black, red. In the upper part there is a geometric braid motif, in the lower part a theory of Saints.
