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San Salvatore, Brescia

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Museo di Santa Giulia chiese Santa Giulia San Salvatore Brescia
Museo di Santa Giulia chiese Santa Giulia San Salvatore Brescia

San Salvatore (or Santa Giulia) is a former monastery in Brescia, Lombardy, northern Italy, now turned into a museum. The monastic complex is famous for the diversity of its architecture which includes Roman remains and significant pre-Romanesque, Romanesque and Renaissance buildings. In 2011, it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of a group of seven inscribed as Longobards in Italy, Places of Power (568-774 A.D.).The monastery is traditionally considered the place where Desiderata, wife of Charlemagne and daughter of the Lombard King Desiderius, spent her exile after the annulment of her marriage in 771.

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San Salvatore, Brescia
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Monastero di Santa Giulia

Via dei Musei 81b
25121 Brescia (Zona Centro)
Lombardy, Italy
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