Grotte di Castro. Church of St. Peter the Apostle

The church of St. Peter the Apostle in Grotte di Castro was built on the land given by Matilda of Canossa in the eleventh century and has undergone several alterations.

Today the building has a classic eighteenth-century style and the facade is divided into two levels.

The lower part with the entrance portal and the top with a window that depicts St. Peter.

On each sides of the facade there are clocks.

The interior has a single nave with five chapels on each side and ends with an apse that houses the main altar and its wooden choir stalls.


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Benedicta Lee

Born in Rome from an Italian mother and American father, she works as a freelance communications manager and designer in the tourism sector, a career and interest which she is pursuing with a...

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