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suppressed together with other religious corporations in Pavia. In 1795 the monastery was granted to the municipality to house a college for students. Between 1859 and 1900 the church was used by the army as an infirmary and only in 1901 was it returned to the
Catholic church. Since 2017, archaeological investigations have started inside the basilica and the former monastery. The excavations have not yet been completed, but have unearthed Lombard tombs that may contain the bones of kings.
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The cloisters was built between 1460 and 1470 and returned to the parish by the military in 1992, it has a square plan and is surrounded on four sides by a portico, supported by columns. with an octagonal section in granite, equipped with Gothic-style capitals, contrasted with capitals in terracotta.
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is preserved. It is a chapel with large volumes typical of the Gothic, with beautiful frescoes also by
Bernardo Lanzani. On the dome, which is divided into eight segments, the celestial vault is painted, small clouds and heads of cherubs with purple wings forming concentric circles. The keystone is
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Austrian government promoted the establishment, inside the monastery, of the Typography of the Royal Imperial Monastery of San Salvatore, entrusted to the monks but financed by the government and equipped with then modern printing equipment. In 1782 the monastery was
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motifs, friezes with angels and tondi and portraits of monks in the entablature, clipei with prophets in the apse segments and church doctors in the lunettes. The frescoes and the interior spaces constitute
Renaissance elements in a monument that remains marked by the late Gothic
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Benedictines of the Congregation of the Fathers of Santa Giustina of Padua. The Benedictines had both the church and the monastery rebuilt between 1453 and 1511. The church was rebuilt in late
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Salvatore was a church-mausoleum of illustrious Lombard kings. Aripert I with his son Perctarit, nephew Cunipert, Liutpert and Aripert II were buried
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dominated by the great dove of the Holy Spirit, which hovers in the sky with outstretched wings, emphasized by the rays of golden light. The presbytery contains a rich frescoed decoration dating back to the early 1500s, again by
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in 1555. Important was 1585, the year in where an official ceremony was held for the deposition of the bones of the kings, already buried in the ancient church, in the new building.
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