Church San Pietro in Cattedra

In the historical center of Valeggio is the church dedicated to St. Peter, Master and Guide of the Church.

Church San Pietro in Cattedra was built between 178 and 188 to a design by architect Adrian Cristofolis on the site of a seventeenth-century church and probably even before an old Romanesque church. The façade is incomplete, but the internal architecture is majestic, divided by one wide nave in neoclassical style, and is decorated with a series of paintings of the eighteenth-century school Cignaroli depicting life and martyrdom of St. Peter. The cycle ends in the apse, which includes the great altarpiece The Chair of St. Peter by Dalla Rosa Saverio, grandson of Cignaroli.
Above the entrance is placed a large eighteenth-century fresco depicting the expulsion of the merchants from the temple. It also retains a pipe organ of 1812 by GB Sona restored and still working.

photo Alessandro1978