Chapel of S. Ludovico

The Chapel of San Ludovico is on the ground floor of the State Archives and only recently it has been recovered and opened to the public. A unique aisle, aimed at cruising and ogival arches determine the gothic footprint.

Take a look at the starry sky frescoes on the vaults. On a typically Gothic work arch is the fresco depicting

Saint Louis of Anjou, who renounced the throne (the father was Charles II the lame), entered the Franciscan order and, after becoming bishop, died in 1296 and was proclaimed holy in 1317.

The fresco represents the Saint with the tiara and the Franciscan dress. Of an elegant fourteenth century work, he recalls Provençal painting and has influences of Siena, to demonstrate the richness of influences and contributions that he collected art in Salerno.

The building that houses the State Archives has a history of a courthouse (appartenete to the families of the Gate and then Guarna), and was then confiscated and used as Regia Udienza, judiciary, administrative and military competences dating back to the

Aragonese period then became a court, retaining this role with the Bourbons, and then after the Unity in the Kingdom of Italy.

The Grand Criminal Court of the Bourbon era hosted the different processes to the Risorgimento patriots, from the motions of 1820 to the trial to the comrades of Carlo Pisacane in the expedition of Sapri.