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The ancient church, is among the most outstanding Romanesque monuments of Spoleto.
The church, with beautiful Romanesque obvious connotation Spoleto, is built on a hill outside the medieval walls.
Built in its present form in the century. X on a first core of a Benedictine monastery; improved in secc. XII and XIII, it was abandoned and re-used with the adjacent convent in sec. XV; badly reworked at the end of the century. XVIII, has been recently restored ..
The façade, divided by pilasters that reflect the division with three aisles, is decorated with a fine rose window partially reinstated, and a simple portal to three Rinchi the bezel which bears traces of a fifteenth-century fresco.
The interior has three naves intersected by a large transept and divided by columns with Corinthian capitals, SEE WAS 1 retains an important cycle of frescoes dating to the early decades of the century. XIII, with stories of Creation, the Patriarchs and Prophets, which documents the quality of the pictorial culture of the time in Spoleto.

The cloister still in the columns and capitals of one of its sides a valuable testimony of the primitive-century Benedictine monastery. X SHOW WAS 2nd
S. Paul "inter vineas" ( "among the vines"), owes its name to indubbiamnet presence in the area of vineyards, now no longer exist.

Already spoke of the church Saint Gregory the Great in his "Dialogues, III 29, where a bishop tells Aryan that was required for his function, not having obtained from the Bishop of Spoleto, he tried to enter by force, his second attempt, the doors were opened by themselves, but many appeared blinded lights that made the bishop already ariano.Il monastery of Benedictine nuns, in 1234, he obtained the rule of the Poor Clares by Gregory IX at Spoleto came to consecrate the new church.
Moved the nuns within the city, close to S. Agata, returned to the Benedictine Rule, documents recently unearthed testify to the presence of pears into the Clare copmplesso until 1462, when Pius II granted to the Bishop Berardo Eroli to assign the complex to the Minor Observant, which already had the hermitage of Monteluco, but Cheil wanted bishop in the city.
Eroli rifece the bishop at his own expense all the restoration of the beautiful and spacious monastery, adorns the church of beautiful paintings, some of which are observed even today in the facade, although stint: the Virgin and Child in her arms and the apostles Peter and Paul .
In documents dell'Archivio Porziuncola track is the insistence with which the Osservanti resisted accepting the convent too broad and too rich, but the insistence of the bishop and the pressure of the popes did bend them, until Sixtus IV, with bubble of 1474 ordered that each jurisdiction levasse earlier, the Benedictine and Clarisse, and totally went to the convent Osservanti.