San Salvatore, Brescia

San Salvatore-Santa Giulia

UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Santa Giulia (left) and San Salvatore churches in the Santa Giulia museal complex.
Official name	The monumental area with the monastic complex of San Salvatore-Santa Giulia
Location	Brescia, Italy
Part of	Longobards in Italy. Places of the Power (568–774 AD)
Criteria	Cultural: (ii), (iii), (vi)
Reference	1318-002
Inscription	2011 (35th Session)
Coordinates	45°32′23″N 10°13′41″E / 45.539852777814°N 10.228133333342°E / 45.539852777814; 10.228133333342
Location of San Salvatore, Brescia in Italy

San Salvatore (or, for most of its existence, 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.).^[1]

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.