The church was built in 1188, replacing an earlier building. Today of the medieval church just the two smaller apses and the right side remain. In the right side there is a portal with an archway decorated with a floral frieze, the sides of which protrude two lions. The implementation presents peculiar characteristics compared to those of the production of the town end of the twelfth century.
In 1580 the church was entrusted to the Regular Clerics of the Mother of God. It began a program of actions, in particular to create the rooms of the monastery. The static instability that followed was the stimulus for a global reorganization, carried out between the beginning of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The church is now one of the most interesting examples of baroque decoration. On the aisles displaying some paintings by the school of Caravaggio.
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