The majestic structure of the late mediaeval benedictine Abbey of Saint Salvatore Maggiore is situated in the plateau between Concerviano e Longone. The Monastery was founded in 735, a period during which the religious politics of the Longobard reign were at a peak. In 891 it was bunt down by theSaracens, only to be rebuilt in the following century when the Abbey took the side of the emperors against the popes during their struggle for investiture. In the twelfth century, when the Normans arrived in the Salto valley,Saint Salvatore became an important boundary and increased its strtegic importance. The Abbey however, never subjugated to the Cistercian reform, which was strongly opposed by the local rural gentry. The first decades of the fourteenth century saw the gradulal decline of the Abbey as, in 1399 Bonifacio IX trasformedit to commenda, and later on, Urbano VIII the Monastery became totallly subject to Farfa.

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