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The parish church of San Pietro was built in the 14th century on the site of an ancient church probably built around the year 1000. The present building, in Gothic-Ligurian style, has a grey stone façade and a rose window in Carrara marble. The interior contains a 12th-century baptismal font.

The church of San Placido dates back to 1409, the year in which the as yet unbuilt site was donated to Benedictine nuns. The construction took place on the ruins of an ancient pagan temple dedicated to the god Bacchus. The church was razed to the ground by the catastrophic earthquake in the Val di Noto in 1693, which destroyed the city of Catania. The new church was built just afterwards and was consecrated in 1723.

The "Don Bosco" Salesian Institute in Sondrio was founded in 1897; the first Salesians, sent by Blessed Michael Rua, Don Bosco's first successor, entered "San Rocco" on 24 September 1897. The specifics of the Salesian presence at the time (oratory, public church and boarding school) remained substantially unchanged until the our days.

The church of San Rocco in Rome is a reconstruction of the 17th century. The sacristy, the construction of the dome, the insertion of the new chapel of the "Madonna delle Grazie", are all due to the architect Giovanni Antonio De Rossi (1616-1695). In the first half of the 18th century the chapels were embellished with marble decoration, while the façade was built in neoclassical style by the architect Giuseppe Valadier (1762-1839) in 1832.

It was built in the first half of the 10th century, near the Castro de Castromao, as part of a monastery of Benedictine monks, which later became a monastery of nuns, and was dedicated to San Salvador.

The Church of San Salvador de Coruxo is a Christian temple located in the parish of Coruxo, in the Val del Fragoso, in the town hall of Vigo, four kilometers from the urban area of ​​the city. It dates back to the 12th century, and until the 14th century it was a monastery owned by the Order of Saint Benedict dependent on Celanova, later becoming a parish church.

The church of San Salvador de Coruxo, dating from the 12th century, was a monastery belonging to the order of San Benito until the 14th century. The church is built with Galician granite stone walls and a tiled roof. It has a Latin cross basilica plan with three naves and three semicircular apses, the central one being wider and higher. Together with the churches of Santa María de Castrelos and Santiago de Bembrive, the Romanesque church of Coruxo is one of the best-preserved in Vigo.

The church of San Salvador de Valdediós, commonly known as "el Conventín", is located next to the monastery of Santa María de Valdediós. It is a representative monument of Asturian post-Romanesque architecture. The construction of the building is attributed to King Alfonso III (848-910), the church having been consecrated during his reign, in the year 892. The temple was connected to the Monastery of Santa María by a passageway that was demolished in the middle of the 19th century by the Historical and Artistic Monuments Commission of the Province of Oviedo.

The church of San Silvestro in Capite was founded in the 8th century with the adjoining Basilian monastery. In the 12th century, Pope Innocent II transferred the relic of the head of St. John the Baptist to it and the name was changed to St. John in Capitol. Between 1198 and 1216, the church was remodelled and the Romanesque bell tower was built. The monastery building was remodelled in 1588-1591 and the church in 1593-1601. The interior decoration was completed in 1696 and Domenico de' Rossi completed the façade in 1703.

The church of San Sisto was built from 1490 to 1511 on a former church belonging to a monastery of Benedictine women, which was founded in the 9th century. At the end of the 15th century, the church was demolished in order to build the new temple. The facade was completed only in 1591, and was remodelled in its present classical style in 1755. The monastery was abolished in 1810 and transformed into barracks, while the church became a parish church.