The site, presently not occupied by religious, consists of three buildings: the Basilica of San Pietro, an oratory dedicated to St. Benedict, and what was the monastery. The buildings were part of the Benedictine abbey complex of Civate, the Basilica of San Calocero and the churches of San Nazario and San Vito. Two stone portals include carvings above them. The frescoes of the 1090s in the basilica of St. Peter, whose subject is the final apotheosis of Christ and the Triumph of the Righteous, following the
Book of Revelation, makes it one of the most important Lombard Romanesque sites. The
ciborium in the basilica has important
reliefs in
stucco. Both
Anselm III, Archbishop of Milan from 1086 to 1093, and his successor
Arnulf III (d. 1097) lived at the monastery for periods, using it as a refuge in the turbulent 1080s and 1090s; Arnulf III died and is buried there. The expansion no doubt owed much to their presence. ==References==