Church of the Holy Savior

The monastery was founded in 1616 in the Walled City, where its ruins survive, and only after 1718 was moved to the current site, where stood a small church of Saint Catherine of Alexandria built in 1622 on the place of a church of San Sebastiano from 1348. The church has rococo characters while the surviving part of the convent has more rustic characters. Abolished the monastery, after the Unity, the building was used in 1923 as the headquarters of the orphanage Regina Margherita. In 1959, a collapse destroyed part of the church’s ceiling, causing serious damage to the art furnishings. The church has a single nave with semicircular apse.

The single-order façade has a vertical aspect and the door, topped by a high window, is connected by elegant oval windows. In the area of the attic is the door with a broken tympanum, adorned with cherubim and floral motifs of Rococo taste, and completed by the coat of arms of the order and a niche with the statue of Saint Benedict. A side body held the bell tower, now demolished. On the northern side opens an eighteenth-century architravata door, adjacent to a contemporary added body. Inside a large room with vaulted all center. On the wall of the apse, without the ancient and wooden high altar, the Ascension, by unknown author of the eighteenth century. It was flanked by four oval paintings with scenes from the life of Jesus. Removed also two paintings mistilinee: La fuga in Egitto and Madonna with San Michele Arcangelo.
On the left wall the two altars were surmounted by two altarpieces, Baptism of Jesus and Saint Benedict, while on the right the Nativity and Holy Scholastic. In the apsidal basin is preserved the fresco of Mary Magdalene washing the feet of Jesus by Scipio Manni. At the high altar remains the Transfiguration within a richly carved and gilded frame. The room is surrounded by a spectacular stucco decoration with vegetable and puttini motifs, animated by large windows that flood with light.