| The church was built in the eleventh century, together with the adjoining monastery, by the Benedictines, a place of pagan worship. The main entrance was originally on the Western Front, and was later moved to the north side by the name of Porta Maggiore. The restoration of 2001 brought to light original architectural forms: the single room Romanesque, the mullioned windows, beamed ceiling of the eighteenth century, the chapel of the Holy Saviour with the thirteenth-century vault. The church has a rich heritage of art, including tables, paintings, religious objects, reliquaries and sacred objects from the period between the thirteenth and the twentieth century.
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