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Back to the town of Castelfranco di Sotto Tourism in Castelfranco di Sotto |
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The Saint Peter Collegiate Church in Castelfranco di Sotto The village of Castelfranco di Sotto saves still today its original structure of a Roman "castrum" (fortified place) that develops along two main roads intersecting in a square placed in the middle of the village, on which the Saint Peter Collegiate Church opens. The actual building of the Saint Peter Collegiate Church is the result of an eighteenth-century restoration. It was built on the remains of a pre-existing church, of which remains today some decorations and two statues portraying two lions. The Collegiate Church saves some fine paintings like a "Tabitha's Resurrection" painted by Passignano and a "Saint Peter's Liberation" by Alessandro Allori. In the right transept it is possible to admire a fourteenth-century statue portraying "Saint Peter", made by a Pisan artist, and along the left side some fine wooden statues made during the XIII-th century. Very interesting to see are also a fifteenth-century baptismal font showing the shape of a vase and a painting portraying an "Annunciation", being this latter placed to the second altar along the left side.
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