Collegiata di San Paolo

The Collegiate Church of Saint Paul, the result is a solid and elegant portico of the sixteenth century, crowned by a loggia buffered which currently hosts the headquarters of the rectory. Of medieval origin, the Church of the Monastery was elevated to Collegiate Eminent by Urban VIII in 1632; is built on the foundations of an older building, dating from the twelfth century., which it has been preserved only the apse rebuilt in Romanesque style. On the front has a sober century portal; within four altars, all of the seventeenth century., baroque but touched up several times over the centuries, preserved two paintings: one of the fifteenth century. It depicts three saints, the other style of Raphael, dated “MDLVIII”, a Madonna and a group of faithful worshipers. In the apse it is preserved a large painting of the famous artist from Ascoli Nicola Monti; painted in the eighteenth century, depicting the Conversion of St. Paul. Once the apse was kept a large triptych of Cola Amatrice; Today it can be admired in Room XI of the Pinacoteca Vaticana. Other interesting paintings are kept in the sacristy: the boards depicting the five joyful mysteries, fine painted by Simone de Magistris from Caldarola (1543-1611), recently restored, once placed on the balustrade of the choir. The Collegiate is preserved a precious collection of relics, including that of the Holy Cross embossed golden brass that dates from the fifteenth century, and a beautiful stationary cross in gilded copper, with capsules for relics, in 1513, came from the ancient monastic church of St. Saviour.