San Salvatore, Brescia

Local nameChiesa di San Salvatore
LocationBrescia, Italy

San Salvatore is a former monastery in Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy, now turned into a museum. The monastic complex is famous for the diversity of its architecture which includes Roman remains and significant pre-Romanesque, Romanesque and Renaissance buildings.

In 2011, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of a group of seven inscribed as Longobards in Italy, Places of Power.

The monastery is traditionally considered the place where Desiderata, wife of Charlemagne and daughter of the Lombard King Desiderius, spent her exile after the annulment of her marriage in 771.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Salvatore,_Brescia

Address 81A Via dei Musei, Brescia 25121, Italy

Coordinates 45°32'23.253" N 10°13'42.781" E

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