In Piazza Garibaldi, across from the St Augustine Church, stands the Church of San Salvatore. According to the Foligno historian Ludovico Jacobilli, the monastery was built in the year 970, but the first refernces to it date back to 1138. The historians of the time spoke of “black monks of the ancient Benedictine congregation…” and of “a very powerful abbey…”
In reality, the complex soon lost its prestige and predominant role, because in 1239 mention was made only of the church and no longer of the monastery, almost certainly abandoned following the transfer of the monks to the nearby Abbey of Sassovivo.
The building you see today is the result of subsequent alterations, also due to natural events such as the earthquake of 1997 that seriously damaged the church and bell tower. The 14th century façade is enriched by three ogee arched doors, each one surmounted by small rose windows, designed and built in 1889 by the architect Bevenuti. The interior is in the eighteenth-century style built between 1748 and 1759 by the architect Pietro Loni. Among the frescoes that decorate the walls, the most noteworthy are a Virgin among the saints, by an unknown artist, dated to the XIII century, and the flight into Egitto, attributed to Bartolomeo di Tommaso, dated to the XIV century, This fresco was originally to the right of the central door to decorate the main facade and was transferred inside the church only in modern times.
Finally, on a lateral altar on the right, is the painting showing Madonna with her Child and Saint Stanislao Kostka, by the Sicilian artist Gaetano Sortini, dated 1756.