Chiesa di San Salvatore alle Coppelle

Celestine III consecrated or reconsecrated the church in 1195, the date of the dedicatory plaque inside and of the small Romanesque campanile now partly absorbed into the neighbouring building. A bull of Honorius III of 1222 already calls it de Cupellis, after the workshops of the makers of small barrels, coppelle. In 1404 it was granted to the Universita degli Orefici, Ferrari e Sellari, and the saddlers stayed until 1740. From 1633 it was also the seat of the Confraternita del Santissimo Sacramento della Divina Perseveranza, which cared for sick pilgrims and foreigners: a letterbox-shaped plaque on the left flank, of the Jubilee of 1750, instructs innkeepers and lodging-house keepers to drop in a note reporting any guest who fell ill, beginning QUI DEVONO METTERE I VIGLIETTI TUTTI GLI OSTI ALBERGATORI LOCANDIERI. The medieval church was rebuilt for that Holy Year to a design by Carlo De Dominicis, funded by Cardinal Giorgio Spinola, who is buried in one of the chapels under a polychrome marble monument by Bernardino Ludovisi. Two fifteenth-century fresco fragments survive, a Dormitio Virginis and a Virgin with the Child on her knees, of the school of Antoniazzo Romano. The church has three naves, and the original marble columns were replaced by masonry piers at the end of the eighteenth century.