San Salvatore al Vescovo, Romanesque church in central Florence, Italy

San Salvatore al Vescovo is a church on piazza dell'Olio, set against the rear of the Arcivescovado palace. Its facade keeps a Romanesque lower half of three blind arches on semi-columns, inlaid with white Carrara marble and green serpentine, under a zigzag band of pale and dark stone; the upper plastered wall, with its single grated oculus, dates to about 1895. The interior is a single barrel-vaulted hall with 18th-century frescoes.

Documented in 1032 and possibly dating to the 9th century, the church was rebuilt in 1221 to a design by Lapo Tedesco, as reported by Vasari. It was one of the thirty-six parishes of Florence's ancient circle. In 1441 Pope Eugene IV merged its parish with nearby San Ruffillo, making it the bishop's private chapel.

The name "al Vescovo" comes from the adjoining Archbishop's Palace, which absorbed the parish: in 1441 Pope Eugene IV united San Salvatore with the nearby San Ruffillo, and the church became the bishop's private chapel. An entrance opens onto the palace courtyard rebuilt by Bernardino Ciurini, finished in 1737.

The church faces piazza dell'Olio and is set into the rear of the Arcivescovado palace, so its facade is easy to miss from the street. One entrance opens off the palace courtyard; the bell gable, reduced and remounted in the 1895 works, can be seen from via Roma.

The bell tower was dismantled around 1895, reduced in size and placed atop the enlarged Archbishop's Palace, which was built over the church itself; it can now be seen from via Roma. Only the gabled outline of the facade remains exposed.