Chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo
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The construction of the Church of San Pietro Apostolo began in 1831 by Don Giovanni Battista Arcozzi and was opened for worship in June 1845.
In neoclassical style, the Church features a façade with a pediment supported by four tuff columns, sourced from the quarries of San Pietro. The tympanum is decorated with a bas-relief depicting two angels holding a cross. The Church is dedicated to Saints Apostles Peter and Matthias, patrons of Caldiero. The latter are represented in two imposing statues located in niches on either side of the portal.
The interior features a single nave and two lateral corridors to the central nave, with an entrance from the main square, leading to the upper part of the Church and the two side chapels.
The interior has a single nave in which the main altar and the organ are placed. On either side of the apse, there are two chapels connected to the apse by a large arch and separated by the same balustrade. Two wide lateral corridors to the central nave, with an entrance from the main square, lead to the upper part of the Church and the two side chapels. Entering through the main door, on the right, you find the Baptistery from 1610, probably taken from the previous parish church.
On the side walls, there are four minor altars, one of which, the altar of the Sacred Heart, features a sixteenth-century painting by Brusasorzi, considered artistically very important. Two other paintings are found in the side chapels: in the right one, the Addolorata, from 1637 signed by Battista Barchus; in the left one, the Madonna del Rosario included in the altar built in 1651 and transported from the old Church in 1900.
Two large paintings dominate the Church by S. Zenatello, a Veronese painter residing in Caldiero from 1924 to 1965. The central one, located on the ceiling, represents the Assumption; the one on the apse's basin depicts the Transfiguration. A third painting, also by S. Zenatello, is found above the confessional, where the pulpit used to be. There is then a work by Del Pitico above the main door, a painting titled The Expulsion of the Profaners from the Temple, and surrounding the lower part of the Church are scenes from the life of Saint Peter.
Contact
Chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo
Via Vittorio Veneto, 31 ( Directions )