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Church · Salerno (SA)

Church of the Santissimo Crocifisso, Salerno

  • Visit: about 20 min
Church of the Santissimo Crocifisso, Salerno
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The church on Via dei Mercanti with its crypt and the great 13th-century Crucifixion.

The Church of the Santissimo Crocifisso overlooks Via dei Mercanti, the shopping street of Salerno's historic centre. It was originally called Santa Maria della Pietà di Portanova and dates from before the 13th century.Beneath the church, discovered only in 1950, lies the crypt of a building older than the year 1000. It preserves a large Crucifixion frescoed in the first half of the 13th century, with Christ shown with closed eyes.

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