Church San Pietro in Bosco
The small church San Pietro in Bosco is an ancient building in the southern part of the town of Ala, at the center of a legend that sees it as a meeting place between Teodolinda, daughter of the Duke of Bavaria and Autari, third king of the Lombards, his future husband.
The Church San Pietro in Bosco is the oldest building in Ala, dating back to the sixth century (as a sacred building to the IX-X) and is an example of minor Romanesque architecture with late 15th and later elements; the façade has a portal with an architrave surmounted by a single lancet window and with two rectangular windows at the sides preceded by an atrium covered by a wooden roof; inside, the pre-existing Roman buildings of the first rectangular-shaped building have been left visible on the floor, besides the cycle of frescoes representing a Christ above the entrance and Saint George killing the dragon, a milestone was found Roman church of the fourth century now exposed in the municipal library. From the eleventh century the bell tower, tall, with Romanesque mullioned windows and with a terracotta vertex cusp.
