Other places to visit nearby

Palazzo Longo - The area on which Palazzo Longo stands was a Burgenzatic property of the abbey of San Benedetto, already ancient in 1277, when it was recognized as such by Charles I of Anjou. It extended, outside the city walls, from the buttresses under the abbey of San Benedetto to the currently Portanova street, which, coming from the marina, turned north and then west, to enter the city through the Porta Nova, located just beyond the entrance of the current Via dei Mercanti. Although it was located extra moenia, the area was urbanizing until it was necessary, perhaps at the beginning of the 15th century, the construction of an extension of the walls that came to include it in the city, so its eastern side became the new defensive curtain.

Palazzo Carrara - The building falls within the ancient district called "Ortus Magnum", today S.Giovanniello. This district was already inhabited in the 1st centuries of the second millennium, but during the 18th century, there was a building renewal of the curtains of via Mercanti as evidenced by the different construction periods of the various levels of the building. This renewal is evident in the facade whose registers architectural elements refer to those of the neoclassical buildings of the Neapolitan 18th century. The most protruding part of the building takes up the building typology organized on a Gothic lot (persistence of medieval urban fabrics), while the one facing the open area takes up the type of building organized in the courtyard (typological matrices of Roman urban aggregates). Majolica floor. External facade with corner pilasters with Ionic capitals. Inside painted on paper. In the underground structures remains of one of the temples of the republican colony as shown by an archaeological excavation. In 1483 San Francesco di Paola stayed there for three days while passing through the city on his way to Tours: anyway hosted in 1770 the eccentric Knight of Seingalt, Giacomo Casanova.

Chiesa di San Pietro de Grisonte - In 1165, there is the first mention to this church. Its current name comes from today’s confraternity of St. Roch, which oversees it. A trace of the old dedication to Saint Peter remains in the name of the adjacent square, Largo S. Petrillo. The church was completely rebuilt in the 17th century by the family De Iudice. The wooden statue of the Virgin Mary placed on the main altar is of that period too. In the presbytery, the Virgin on the left wall and the wooden Crucifix are recent works of the painter Mario Carotenuto from Salerno. Instead, the polychrome ceramic plates inserted in the pavement outside the church are by the artist Pierfrancesco Solimene.

Chiesa di San Gregorio Magno - The oldest news that has come down to us dates back to March 1058. In 1172 it was rebuilt by Abbot Roberto Guarna, brother of Archbishop Romualdo. The façade has a portal whose smooth jambs are surmounted by a marble architrave with a finely carved frame, perhaps an element of reuse. In the upper part, to the right of the tympanum that concludes it, there is a small bell gable. The interior has a rectangular plan with a single nave with a barrel vault. The sides of the hall are marked by arches; those on the left side lead to two covered areas, one with a barrel vault, the other a cross vault. A semicircular niche aedicule is leaning against the wall of the presbytery flanked by two pilasters with Doric capitals and surmounted by a broken curvilinear tympanum in which a window is inserted. The city institutions have defaced it with Vietri-style ceramics, absolutely inconsistent with the history and identity of the place

Palazzo Capograsso - It is a building with a long and complex history of constructions, demolitions, renovations, changes in use of some of its parts, in the context of what in the Middle Ages was defined as a lineage district, i.e. a land on which, generally around to a central courtyard, a family built houses of fragmentary construction according to the needs of the moment. In the specific case it is an ancient property of the Capograsso family, patricians of Salerno. The documented history of the area begins in 976, when Count Pietro di Landolfo and his wife Aloara built a church dedicated to San Matteo in the courtyard of their houses, which was later called San Matteo Piccolo de Orto Magno or dei Capograsso. In 1278 the complex belonged to the judge Giovanni Capograsso, who among his ancestors boasts Marotta, daughter of Adenolfo da Procida. Unfortunately the numerous documents concerning above all the ownership successions, always within the Capograsso family, do not allow us to know the volumetric evolution of the building, if not the circumstance that extended from the church of San Gregorio (current virtual museum of the School medica salernitana) in the garden of the archbishop's palace. The church of San Matteo Piccolo de Orto Magno from the various lines of descent from Count Pietro and his wife Aloara will pass, for various donations, to the abbey of Cava, from which in 1278 Sergio Capograsso will acquire it by exchange with his other church of San Pietro de Iudice. On January 15, 1516, the deconsecration was ordered due to the indecency of the place where it is built; on May 31, 1618, orders were made to demolish the altars and reduce it to profane use.

Palazzo Pinto - The Pinto family belongs to the noble Norman families, and settled in Salerno before 1200. The original layout, built on older structures, is medieval as evidenced by the numerous Romanesque vestiges recently brought to light, including the large arches overlooking the so-called vicolo dei Pinto, the cornices and arches decorated with precious polychrome inlays, and is attributable to the Norman architecture of the 11th and 12th centuries. The complex, presumably, housed various functions inside, from commercial shops to places of civil and / or religious representation, as the large classrooms decorated with polychrome inlaid frames suggest. These decorative elements, which create a chromatic play obtained with the alternation of gray tuff blocks, coming from the Fratte area, and yellow, refer to the architectural production of Campania of the Norman period and, in Salerno, to the factories of the Cathedral, of Castel Terracena, Palazzo Fruscione and the Church of San Benedetto. A variation in use affected the Romanesque complex of Palazzo Pinto, probably already remodeled by subsequent alterations, in the second half of the 15th century, when the medieval building complex was affected by changes which, by incorporating adjacent structures, transformed it into a splendid and elegant noble residence of which the surviving architectural elements are witnesses; on the ground floor we find the characteristic and emblematic element of an architecture expression of international Gothic, the Catalan lowered arch, an original invention expression of the southern and properly Campania Renaissance movements, made in piperno and surrounded by two capitals with refined floral decorations. In the complex there are also monumental loggias with stone arches that overlook the Vicolo dei Pinto to the east and the internal courtyard to the west, a string course frame on the first level and molded frames of doors and large windows, also made in piperno. Today it houses the Provincial Art Gallery and the Provincial Enoteca.