Basilica del Crocifisso
Basilica del Crocifisso forms the oldest part of an episcopal complex in Italy, with medieval walls and a single nave. A wooden crucifix once stood above the main altar.
Documents mention the church in the sixth century, while the Chronicon Salernitanum records its damage during Sicard’s attack in 839. Expansion began in 987 under Duke Mansone III. Pope John XV then raised it to metropolitan cathedral rank, before later alterations removed both side naves. A 1931 restoration stripped away Baroque additions and exposed earlier masonry.
The diocesan museum, established here in 1996, displays silverware, vestments, reliquaries, wooden sculptures, and paintings. Marble capitals and architraves span the first to twelfth centuries. You can also find seventeenth-century carved wooden doors and a Nativity Chapel with fourteenth- and fifteenth-century frescoes. In the apse, exhibitions and cultural events occupy the former sacred space.
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