Top Catholic churchs in Salerno, Italy
Top Rated Catholic churchs in Salerno
Top Reviewed Catholic churchs in Salerno
Church of St. George
Church of the Crucifix
Church of Santa Maria de Lama
Church of Saint Mary of the Announcement
Chiesa di Santa Maria ad Martyres
Church of Saint Mary Immaculate
Reviews

Chiesa bellissima, elegante,pulita.Uno stupendo ambiente,e un bravissimo prete Padre Giorgio e Padre Francesco.Molto spaziosa all'interno, come Chiesa..Consigliata.❤🌹🙏

Ambiente pulito, accogliente e raccolto. Favorisce la preghiera e il raccoglimento personale e comunitario.


Edificio sacro in stile barocco stupendo e con un organo "gotico" di grande impatto.
Io, organista, ho chiesto di suonarlo ma non mi han permesso 🤷
Io, organista, ho chiesto di suonarlo ma non mi han permesso 🤷

Risalente alla metà del 1300 è un icona storica


Very cute. Small but beautiful! Worth the visit.






















Pregevole chiesa visitata grazie al touring club Salerno proprio nel cuore del centro storico di Salerno il nome deriva dal torrente Lama che scorre li sotto di origine longobarda stupenda soprattutto la parte inferiore con stupendi affreschi non tutti in buone condizioni purtroppo













CHIESA ubicata nel cuore del centro storico della città, ha subito vari è pesanti restauri la vera chicca è la cripta con stupendi affreschi del 1100 ed uno strano cunicolo













Very special small church in a narrow street.

Was beautiful old church, plenty of murals and statues. I got a cumulative ticket with the other churches in Salerno.


Wunderschön








Imperdibile!
La chiesa del Crocifisso, un tempo appartenente al Monastero della Piantanova, è uno straordinario esempio di chiesa romanica. È divisa in tre navate da colonne romane di spoglio. Ma il vero tesoro è la sua cripta, che serba due affreschi di epoca angioina. Di particolare bellezza ed importanza e’ la Crocifissione.
Entrando in chiesa chiedete al parroco di poter visitare la cripta.
La chiesa del Crocifisso, un tempo appartenente al Monastero della Piantanova, è uno straordinario esempio di chiesa romanica. È divisa in tre navate da colonne romane di spoglio. Ma il vero tesoro è la sua cripta, che serba due affreschi di epoca angioina. Di particolare bellezza ed importanza e’ la Crocifissione.
Entrando in chiesa chiedete al parroco di poter visitare la cripta.

Super

La chiesa é molto grande e si affaccia sul mare.

I'm disappointed that despite the end of COVID mandates, the priest and servets put on masks to serve Communion. I find it offensive, tbh. The cpngregation showed no warmth towards this visitor. I'm sure the atmosphere of masking contributes.


La chiesa dell'Annunziata di Salerno risale alla metà del XIV secolo. Si trova nel centro storico e vicino alla villa comunale e il teatro Verdi

Bella chiesa stile barocco in centro a Salerno. Non avrà affreschi particolari degni di nota ma è carina visitarla anche all'interno.

Beautiful and friendly church. Even though the entire mass was in Italian we enjoyed it anyway.

Ampia, luminosa, una delle poche ...con "vista mare".









Gioiello nascosto di Salerno! Purtroppo è aperta solo la domenica mattina, e SOLO grazie ai volontari del Touring Club e alla buona volontà di alcuni abitanti del quartiere, che si impegnano a tenerla pulita (guardate le foto che testimoniano - all'interno - lo stato in cui versava fino a qualche anno fa). Si tratta di due chiese in una, o meglio, di tre. Sì, perché siamo di fronte ad uno degli edifici di culto più antichi di Salerno, nonché uno dei rari che conserva tracce di affreschi Longobardi. Ma andiamo con ordine: su un preesistente edificio romano, forse delle terme, venne costruita una piccolissima cappella stranamente orientata con abside a nord e ingresso a sud, forse proprio per sfruttare le preesistenze murarie. A questo periodo, intorno al X secolo, risalgono alcuni degli affreschi ancora visibili nell'attuale cripta. Nel corso del 1200, per motivi sconosciuti, la cappella venne ingrandita e le fu cambiato l'orientamento, che coincide con quello attuale. A questa seconda fase corrispondono altri affreschi, meglio conservati, con figure di santi, tre dei quali leggibili. Passato un altro secolo, questa cappella fu trasformata in cripta, dal momento che venne edificata l'attuale chiesa superiore, e adibita a sepolcreto. Di questo ambiente inferiore si perse poi la memoria, fino a tempi assai recenti. Anche la chiesa superiore non è priva di fascino, con belle colonne di recupero e due lacerti di affreschi con un Cristo molto espressivo ed una Maddalena ridotta a fantasma. I volontari organizzano qui eventi di vario genere, nella speranza che il quartiere ed i salernitani si riapproprino di questo luogo, un po' dimenticato perché non vi si celebra messa, ma INTERESSANTISSIMO da un punto di vista storico/artistico. PS: lo strano nome della chiesa, Santa Maria de Lama, deriva dal torrente Lama, che ancora oggi scorre sotto il manto stradale.



Imperdibile. La chiesa di Santa Maria de lama, fondata intorno al X Secolo, riutilizza i resti di un impianto termale di una domus di età romana. Il primo impianto della chiesa, ad aula presenta un primo ciclo di affreschi, risalenti al X secolo, dove si individuano le immagini di San Bartolomeo e Sant’Andrea, ed un secondo ciclo con le immagini di san Lorenzo, santo Stefano e san Leonardo. Il livello superiore è una bella chiesa romanica risalente alla fine del secolo XI. Particolari le colonne affrescate





La cripta della chiesa è uno dei posti più magici di Salerno. Quando si scendono i ripidi gradini che portano nella penombra del piccolo ambiante sacro, si viene avvolti da una particolarissima sensazione, si avverte una netta cesura fra l’esterno e l’interno. Sembra quasi di entrare nel grembo materno, in un luogo ovattato e silenzioso dominato dal grande affresco del XIII sec. raffigurante Cristo in Croce, dipinto con un realismo tale da accentuarne l’umanità e la sofferenza. È un luogo di raccoglimento e pace, dove cercare se stessi e innalzarsi ad una dimensione tutta spirituale.

Loved🥰heavenly 💓💓💓





Molto bella! Sia sotto che sopra ci sono affreschi bellissimi e speriamo che possano restaurarli presto per renderli al meglio! Peccato che questa chiesa è chiusa, ma grazie alla giornata FAI e alla guida volontaria, sono riuscita a vederla!


The Church of the Holy Annunciation, together with the Arechi Castle and Porta Nova, represents one of the vertices of the geographical triangle, which describes the plan of historic Salerno. The SS. Annunziata was built on the site of a previous religious building, the church of Santa Maria, and is mentioned for the first time in a document dated 1412, when Queen Margherita di Durazzo donated some possessions to the church itself. In the crypt of the new church there are the remains of the old that dates back to 1400 on which the place of worship dedicated to the Madonna was rebuilt, in one of the access points of the ancient city of Salerno, via Porta Catena, right in front of where the old city hospital San Giovanni di Dio was located (and where now there is the Lanzalone Middle School), as in the western side we recognize the remains of the walls of the Norman age.
Excavations in 2011 brought to light traces of the ancient fortification walls of the city and, as mentioned, of the pre-existing church of the 1400s as well as the various ossuaries located in the basement, at the side chapels of the church. The new building was built in 1627, with the name of Santissima Annunziata Nuova, and replaced the old which, in 1626, was destroyed by a flood. Today the church, with a longitudinal plan with a presbytery covered by a dome, shows a marked 18th-century style. Ferdinando Sanfelice in 1737 was responsible for the elegant bell tower with four superimposed orders, completed by a pinnacle spire, connected by volutes.
Excavations in 2011 brought to light traces of the ancient fortification walls of the city and, as mentioned, of the pre-existing church of the 1400s as well as the various ossuaries located in the basement, at the side chapels of the church. The new building was built in 1627, with the name of Santissima Annunziata Nuova, and replaced the old which, in 1626, was destroyed by a flood. Today the church, with a longitudinal plan with a presbytery covered by a dome, shows a marked 18th-century style. Ferdinando Sanfelice in 1737 was responsible for the elegant bell tower with four superimposed orders, completed by a pinnacle spire, connected by volutes.









The Church of S. Maria della Pietà, its architectural lineage tracing back to the enigmatic epochs of the 10th and 11th centuries, once bore a different name. Until the year 1857, it was known by its former appellation, before it embraced the title of SS. Crocifisso. During that pivotal year, it played host to the parish of San Benedetto, albeit temporarily, as military forces shuttered its sacred doors.
The church stands as a testament to time, an embodiment of the basilican archetype with its three apses facing the eastern horizon. Its interior, a symphony of three naves, is punctuated by columns, ancient remnants repurposed, bearing the weight of rounded masonry arches adorned with the eloquent embrace of a yellow tufo cornice. A subtle inclination graces the northern flank of the edifice, bestowing upon it a gentle, almost imperceptible tilt. Within a recess on the left, a rectangular niche harbors an 18th-century wooden Crucifix, attributed to the hand of Pietro Barliario, whose presence emerges like a spectral whisper during certain seasons. Beneath the right altar, frescoes from the 16th and 17th centuries weave their narratives into the tapestry of time.
Beyond the church's hallowed confines, along the lateral wall that gazes upon Via Mercanti, the observer is graced by the original Romanesque masonry, its facade adorned with monofore, like ancient eyes that once beheld the passage of centuries.
The passage of time has etched its signature upon this sacred enclave throughout the 20th century. In 1928, a new facade emerged, an academic interpretation, crowned by an overhanging portico that mirrored the church's interior, with its three apses. Following the tumultuous floodwaters of 1954, the church was painstakingly restored and fortified, reviving its original visage in a false neoromanesque garb. The second facade, a more recent addition, embraced the interior of the 20th-century portico, while to its right, a bell tower was raised to pierce the heavens.
Beneath the feet of worshippers lies a hidden realm, the crypt, officially unveiled in the year 1950. It is believed to precede the upper church, its origins harkening back to the 8th century. A celebrated fresco of the Crucifixion, dating back to the 13th or 14th century, stands as a testament to the Angevin influences that once graced Salerno, within a fully functioning subterranean sanctuary.
The crypt, much like its celestial counterpart, boasts a basilican floorplan, its heart adorned with three naves, their division marked by vaulted cross arches, their ascent culminating in three apses facing the east. These arches cradle themselves upon pilasters, enshrining the ancient columns of yore. Along the northern wall, monofore bestow their timeless grace, a silent chorus to the crypt's enigmatic sanctity.
The church stands as a testament to time, an embodiment of the basilican archetype with its three apses facing the eastern horizon. Its interior, a symphony of three naves, is punctuated by columns, ancient remnants repurposed, bearing the weight of rounded masonry arches adorned with the eloquent embrace of a yellow tufo cornice. A subtle inclination graces the northern flank of the edifice, bestowing upon it a gentle, almost imperceptible tilt. Within a recess on the left, a rectangular niche harbors an 18th-century wooden Crucifix, attributed to the hand of Pietro Barliario, whose presence emerges like a spectral whisper during certain seasons. Beneath the right altar, frescoes from the 16th and 17th centuries weave their narratives into the tapestry of time.
Beyond the church's hallowed confines, along the lateral wall that gazes upon Via Mercanti, the observer is graced by the original Romanesque masonry, its facade adorned with monofore, like ancient eyes that once beheld the passage of centuries.
The passage of time has etched its signature upon this sacred enclave throughout the 20th century. In 1928, a new facade emerged, an academic interpretation, crowned by an overhanging portico that mirrored the church's interior, with its three apses. Following the tumultuous floodwaters of 1954, the church was painstakingly restored and fortified, reviving its original visage in a false neoromanesque garb. The second facade, a more recent addition, embraced the interior of the 20th-century portico, while to its right, a bell tower was raised to pierce the heavens.
Beneath the feet of worshippers lies a hidden realm, the crypt, officially unveiled in the year 1950. It is believed to precede the upper church, its origins harkening back to the 8th century. A celebrated fresco of the Crucifixion, dating back to the 13th or 14th century, stands as a testament to the Angevin influences that once graced Salerno, within a fully functioning subterranean sanctuary.
The crypt, much like its celestial counterpart, boasts a basilican floorplan, its heart adorned with three naves, their division marked by vaulted cross arches, their ascent culminating in three apses facing the east. These arches cradle themselves upon pilasters, enshrining the ancient columns of yore. Along the northern wall, monofore bestow their timeless grace, a silent chorus to the crypt's enigmatic sanctity.











The church of Santa Maria de Lama, not far from Via Tasso connected to it by steps, to the east of the ancient Amalfitani district (Locus Veterensium), is a place of worship of very ancient origins, a container of important medieval architectural elements of great suggestion. The toponym Lama refers to the presence of the small stream, still existing, arranged north-south, which laps the western part of the sacred building. The church currently consists of two levels of which the lower one, improperly called "crypt", is actually the primordial building, whose discovery dates back to the beginning of the 70s of the last century, when, at the end of a long excavation, a sacred structure of particular beauty and importance from both a historical and artistic point of view came to light, together with the remains of human bones (it is therefore a burial place). The lower structure consists of a rectangular hall with an east-west orientation with a row of three central columns with a roof consisting of eight cross vaults (built in a later period, probably during the construction of the upper church). On the north wall, you can see a semicircular room: this is the apse of the original church, probably with a quadrangular plan (typical of Byzantine architecture). The hypogeum therefore rests on a pre-existing structure from the Roman era of which portions of the wall with fragments of opus reticolatum and opus listum walls are visible. The quadrangular chapel can be dated to the end of the 10th - beginning of the 11th century, as attested by the first notarial document dating back to 1055, in which we learn that it belonged to the Lombard aristocracy. Of particular interest is the cycle of frescoes present, divided into two historical phases: the first relating to the foundation of the church, the second most likely dating back to a subsequent modification and recovery of the layout of the entire environment with an east-west direction (as a consequence, probably, of earthquakes or even floods) with the subsequent construction of the upper church, where latter is divided into three naves separated by two elegant rows of bare columns. The frescoes positioned on two columns date back to the end of the 15th century and represent Christ with the cross (in excellent condition) and the Magdalene (unfortunately poorly reduced).

San Giorgio, to which the church of the same name belongs, is one of the oldest monastic complexes in the city of Salerno, from the Lombard era, whose cultural influence can also be seen in the choice of dedication to the figure of a warrior saint.
The first certain information dates back to a diploma from 819 which mentions a "cella Sancti Georgi infra salernitanam civitatem", dependent on the Benedictine Monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno.
The entrance to the church goes almost unnoticed, as it is simple and linear.
The external portal leads to a rectangular vestibule, divided into two parts by a round arch resting on two powerful pillars.
The actual church is accessed by a stone portal from the Renaissance period, commissioned by the abbess Lucrezia Santomagno, which is striking for its refined wooden doors of an intense olive green color and golden friezes.
The church has a single Latin cross nave covered by a completely frescoed barrel vault, equipped with four side chapels. At the intersection between the nave and the rectangular transept, onto which two other chapels open, the dome rises, also frescoed.
The floor is covered with majolica tiles decorated with acanthus leaves, small flowers and a black and white micro-checkerboard geometric motif, under which lies a secret kept for centuries.
In fact, under the floor of the current building, the original Lombard nucleus is preserved, revealed by a mechanism that allows the opening of five trapdoors arranged along the nave. What presents itself to the eyes is an evocative spectacle, capable of arousing an indescribable emotion: with the opening of the floor, a piece of history, of the city's past, still so vivid and current, comes to light. It is an apse frescoed with colors such as ocher, black, red.
In the upper part there is a geometric braid motif, in the lower part a theory of Saints.
The first certain information dates back to a diploma from 819 which mentions a "cella Sancti Georgi infra salernitanam civitatem", dependent on the Benedictine Monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno.
The entrance to the church goes almost unnoticed, as it is simple and linear.
The external portal leads to a rectangular vestibule, divided into two parts by a round arch resting on two powerful pillars.
The actual church is accessed by a stone portal from the Renaissance period, commissioned by the abbess Lucrezia Santomagno, which is striking for its refined wooden doors of an intense olive green color and golden friezes.
The church has a single Latin cross nave covered by a completely frescoed barrel vault, equipped with four side chapels. At the intersection between the nave and the rectangular transept, onto which two other chapels open, the dome rises, also frescoed.
The floor is covered with majolica tiles decorated with acanthus leaves, small flowers and a black and white micro-checkerboard geometric motif, under which lies a secret kept for centuries.
In fact, under the floor of the current building, the original Lombard nucleus is preserved, revealed by a mechanism that allows the opening of five trapdoors arranged along the nave. What presents itself to the eyes is an evocative spectacle, capable of arousing an indescribable emotion: with the opening of the floor, a piece of history, of the city's past, still so vivid and current, comes to light. It is an apse frescoed with colors such as ocher, black, red.
In the upper part there is a geometric braid motif, in the lower part a theory of Saints.

Locas de cult Romano Catolic de un inalt spirit religios.Cam aglomerata si foarte zgomotoasa.
In un silenzio fa pregare.
In un silenzio fa pregare.

La chiesa non ha navate, ma entrando sulla destra ha la sagrestia, una deliziosa cappella con i confessionali ed un vano adibito perlopiù ad ufficio parrocchiale.
L'ambiente della chiesa, dove sull'altare è collocata la statua della Madonna, è serenamente mistico ed induce alla preghiera. Personalmente ho trovato un padre spirituale, non più giovane, ma che nella confessione si è rivelato come un sacerdote eccezionale (da conoscere)che è riuscito in pieno a darmi pace e serenità e risposte molto esaurienti alle mie carenze spirituali
L'ambiente della chiesa, dove sull'altare è collocata la statua della Madonna, è serenamente mistico ed induce alla preghiera. Personalmente ho trovato un padre spirituale, non più giovane, ma che nella confessione si è rivelato come un sacerdote eccezionale (da conoscere)che è riuscito in pieno a darmi pace e serenità e risposte molto esaurienti alle mie carenze spirituali

La chiesa e le sue strutture sono di fatto un punto di riferimento e di aggregazione trovandosi in un punto strategico della città.

1904 (costruzione carattere generale)
La chiesa è costruita nel 1904.
Descrizione La facciata principale si articola in due ordini separati da un cornicione modanato con timpano di chiusura. Al primo ordine quattro lesene scandiscono la facciata in tre parti uguali, ciascuna avente al centro un portone d'ingresso. Il portone centrale presenta una lunetta con effige sacra rappresentata su piastrelle maiolicate. Al secondo ordine si ripetono le lesene che individuano nuovamente tre spazi caratterizzati rispettivamente da due nicchie quelli laterali, mentre quello centrale da un'ampia bucatura con arco a tutto sesto e vetri policromi. La pianta è rettangolare, ad una sola navata. L'aula liturgica ed il presbiterio sono coperti da una volta a botte arricchita da fregi e stucchi nonché da cromie nei toni del giallo ocra. Un cornicione a modanature aggettanti corre lungo il perimetro interrompendosi nel presbiterio sulla nicchia sita al centro della parete di fondo. Sulle pareti laterali si rilevano nicchie definite da ampi archi a tutto sesto intervallati da lesene.
La chiesa è costruita nel 1904.
Descrizione La facciata principale si articola in due ordini separati da un cornicione modanato con timpano di chiusura. Al primo ordine quattro lesene scandiscono la facciata in tre parti uguali, ciascuna avente al centro un portone d'ingresso. Il portone centrale presenta una lunetta con effige sacra rappresentata su piastrelle maiolicate. Al secondo ordine si ripetono le lesene che individuano nuovamente tre spazi caratterizzati rispettivamente da due nicchie quelli laterali, mentre quello centrale da un'ampia bucatura con arco a tutto sesto e vetri policromi. La pianta è rettangolare, ad una sola navata. L'aula liturgica ed il presbiterio sono coperti da una volta a botte arricchita da fregi e stucchi nonché da cromie nei toni del giallo ocra. Un cornicione a modanature aggettanti corre lungo il perimetro interrompendosi nel presbiterio sulla nicchia sita al centro della parete di fondo. Sulle pareti laterali si rilevano nicchie definite da ampi archi a tutto sesto intervallati da lesene.

3 stelle che significano più bene che male, no? Bella chiesa secondo il classico barocco che di solito si dedica all'Immacolata Vergine. Una navata. Moderatamente ampia e ariosa. Unica pecca e che nei paraggi non vedo parcheggi auto. Almeno io che ci sono andato sempre a piedi. Francescani che sanno veramente fare la parola di Dio.

Ho ascoltato una Santa Messa in giorno feriale. Molto bello. Nessun parcheggio dedicato; si deve parcheggiare lungo la strada se si trova il posto (non è banale) ma ci sono piccoli parcheggi nei paraggi. Artisticamente brutta non per niente non ha stile, diciamo stile 1900. Belle le vetrate che scompongono la luce del sole in molti colori e danno un bell'effetto tra i banchi. Ariosa sufficientemente ma non grandissima. Doppio ingresso, si entra dalla parte fronte-mare e anche dalla parte dell'altare. Volevo dare 3 stelle ma tutto sommato ne dò 2. Sarò un mecenate non so...

Lovely church, quiet, relaxing atmosphere


È un vero gioiello dell'arte longobarda a Salerno, ubicato nel cuore del Centro Storico, a Via Lama, e visitabile la mattina di sabato e domenica, grazie al Touring Club Italia che ha adottato l'edificio sacro. Caratteristico il percorso per raggiungere la Chiesa nel quartiere popolare, dalle vie anguste e le case, una addossats all'altra, in un susseguirsi di suggestive prospettive... La Chiesa, ormai sconsacrata, ospita eventi artistici e culturali di rilevanza. Diversi anni fa, in occasione della manifestazione Luci d'artista, vi si è tenuto un concerto di musica da Camera del Trio Pragma, complesso di cui faceva parte anche mia figlia Federica, in qualità di violinista! Vi suggerisco di visitare questosplendido cimelio dell'arte longobarda e di portarvi le scolaresche che, spesso, poco conoscono della storia locale.

È una chiesa molto bella, luminosa e ariosa. Si colloca di fronte al mare. Sono molto belle le omelie del parroco. Spero di poterci tornare presto!

Schön auf die Kleinigkeiten achten !!!

Excellent

Nice church and piazzetta

Complesso cattolico molto importante per la città di Salerno visto che riceve una vasta e numerosa utenza di uno dei quartieri più popoloso della città. Ospita il convento dei cappuccini ed è frequentata da più gruppi religiosi laici di ogni età. L'oratorio annesso al complesso svolge molte attività ludiche e sportive. Peccato che durante la crescita dall'infanzia all'età adolescenziale dei miei figli non era fruibile per lavori di recuperi edili e messa in sicurezza.


Beautiful and colourful Dome!!!

We had the luck that some very kind and devoted volunteers let us in and showed us round. Our daughter was allowed to ring the church bell. Wonderful frescos. A gem!



Very nice fresques

Luogo storico, ben tenuto. Facilmente raggiungibile

Wonderful church. One of the most ancient in the city. Very close I suggest the apartment "le tre barche" to live like an italian!


Caratteristica la cupola della Chiesa della Santissima Annunziata, che risale al XVII secolo. Alla facciata sono state tolte le due statue già presenti. L'interno è a navata unica. I restauri sono recenti e sono stati realizzati cercando di recuperare materiali preesistenti. . Sullo sfondo il castello di Arechi.

Another hidden treasure of Salerno.

One of the hidden treasures of Salerno!