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The church of San Rufo dates back to the early Middle Ages, but its current Baroque appearance is due to a reconstruction in 1748 by the Roman architect Melchiorre Passalacqua. After its consecration in 1760, the church was entrusted to the Camillian Fathers. The church houses an important painting of the Caravaggio school (The Guardian Angel).

The church of San Salvatore al Monte was built between 1498 and 1504 on the site of a former Franciscan garden and chapel. The building was designed by Simone del Pollaiolo, known as Il Cronaca. The façade of the church, very simple and framed by typical Tuscan cypresses, has plastered surfaces interrupted only by the portal and the gabled windows. After the siege of 1529, and throughout the 16th century, the church and convent suffered serious damage, which was only partially repaired, so much so that in 1665 the friars left San Salvatore, in an advanced state of decay, to the Spanish Franciscans known as Scalzetti, and moved to Ognissanti.

The church of San Salvatore in Onda was first mentioned in a bull of Pope Honorius II in 1127. In 1445, the church and the adjoining convent were granted by Pope Eugene IV to the Friars Minor Conventual, while on 14 August 1844, Gregory XVI granted it to Vincenzo Pallotti for the religious community he had founded. After this transfer of ownership, the church, which had already undergone a radical restoration in the 18th century with the raising of the floor, was once again rebuilt by the architect Luca Carimini, who highlighted the columns and capitals of the original structure.

The church of San Salvatore was built between 1606 and 1623 on an ancient medieval church, the seat of the Canons Regular of Santa Maria in Reno. The present building was built by Vincenzo Porta, according to the project of the Barnabite father Giovanni Ambrogio Mazenta and the architect Tommaso Martelli. The façade, with its simple lines, houses in four niches the terracotta statues representing the evangelists, made by Giovanni Tedeschi and originally painted in imitation bronze. Three other copper statues are placed at the top.

The church of San Salvatore in Mustiolo already existed in 1009 but was rebuilt in the 12th century. Of this building, the plan and part of the walls of the façade and the south side, up to a height of about two metres, have been preserved, while the rest of the structure shows signs of a neo-Gothic reconstruction in the 19th century.

The church of San Samuele was built around the year 1000 by the Boldù and Soranzo families. It was destroyed at the beginning of the 11th century by two fires and then rebuilt. It was rebuilt almost entirely in 1685. The portico of the façade, now closed, is topped by a loggia added in 1952. Despite the restructuring of the nave and façade in 1685, the late Gothic apse has remained intact.

The church of San Sebastiano was consecrated in 1633 for the Barnabite order. The church was designed by Giovanni Francesco Cantagallina. The last Barnabites left in 1867 and a few years later, in 1874, the church of San Sebastiano became a parish church.

The present church of San Sebastiano was begun in 1505 to a design by Antonio Abbondi, known as Lo Scarpagnino, completed in 1548 and consecrated in 1562. On the site where the church now stands, there was once a hospice founded by the friars of the congregation of San Girolamo around 1393. The new building has a classical façade but a Renaissance interior.

San Sepolcro is a Catholic church in Milan. The building, which dates back to the 12th century, has been deeply remodeled at different times. The current facade is the result of a reconstruction of 1894-1897.

The church of San Severino Abate, first mentioned in 1059, is the oldest sacred building in San Severo. It was originally a small primitive church located on the probable route of the variant of the Via Francigena, today called "Via Sacra Langobardorum". The original three-aisled Benedictine church with a gabled façade was transformed into a larger single-aisle temple in 1224. During the Renaissance, the church was enriched with altars and paintings, but the earthquake of 30 July 1627 caused severe damage to the building. The collapsed walls and roofs were rebuilt and completed around 1640, the bell tower, begun in 1651, was completed around 1730. In a state of advanced dilapidation in the 1960s, it closed. After forty-eight years of long periods of neglect and much-debated restoration work that partly compromised its artistic integrity, the church was finally reopened for worship on 27 April 2008.