The church of San Gregorio was built around the year 1000 during the Lombard period. In the 18th century, in order to facilitate access to the nearby Palazzo Pinto, a dilapidated wing was demolished. The church was desecrated and now houses the virtual museum of the Salerno Medical School.
The Church of Sant'Agostino is a reconstruction, at the beginning of the 19th century, of the Convent of Sant'Agostino, founded in 1309. Inside there is the Virgin of Constantinople, now at the altar, but originally displayed in a chapel in the convent courtyard. She was found in 1453 on the beach in front of the convent and is thought to have come from Constantinople, hence the name. From the beginning, it received great popular devotion, still alive today, by virtue of the miraculous powers attributed to it.
The church of San Michele Arcangelo was founded as a monastery in the 11th century. The present church is the result of a 17th-century reconstruction. In 1619 the convent was passed from the Benedictine nuns to the Poor Clares and was then suppressed in 1866, while the church was entrusted to the secular clergy. After restoration work, the building was reopened for worship in 2010.
The cathedral of Salerno was built in Romanesque style between 1080 and 1085, and then modified several times. The façade and the bell tower, redesigned in Baroque style, were restored to their original appearance in the 1950s and are now of great historical and artistic value. They are an important testimony to the Byzantine-Norman fusion of the period.
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