CHIESA E COMPLESSO DI SAN PIETRO

The church of San Pietro has a rounded rose window and a risorgimento doorway which bears the date of construction 1569. The interior with a single nave, holds fine works of art including an elegant sixteenth century holy water stoup and a painting depicting San Benedetto, dated 1631, an important work by the painter Antonio Mariani from Lombardy. Attached to the church is the ex- Benedictine monastery with the characteristic specola (1583), a quadrangular tower with a double loggia, an elegant balustrade and a pyramidal spire. the rooms of the monastery including the refectory open onto the internal courtyard where part of a fine loggia is conserved. Today it is home to the Civic Museum which includes three sections: Risorgimental-Garibaldian,  Archaeological and Popular Traditions