Church San Pietro in Mavinas

The church San Pietro in Mavinas is an ancient church in Romanesque style, the first building dates back to the eighth century, it is an early medieval church renovated in Romanesque style, on the Mavino hill on whose slopes is the Longobard necropolis.

Church San Pietro in Mavinas is named in the testament of Cunimondo of 765 and used as a cemetery until the fifteenth century, has undergone a radical restructuring towards the second decade of the fourteenth century, while in the XV, with the intention to reuse the cemetery, the external and internal level has been raised to the current level. The building has a rectangular plan, with three semi-circular apses plastered but without any external decoration, it has a roof composed of wooden trusses that rests on a masonry rise dating back to 1320, as evidenced by the engraving on a brick next to the door. entrance. The external wall has a rather rough bill with pebbles, stones and bricks. The bell tower is located on the southern side, has a regular surface with angular pilasters and terracotta decorations with blind arches dating from around the eleventh century, but the bell is dated 1366. Inside, the building is extremely simple but on the walls there are valuable frescoes of the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries and in the three apses frescoes of 1321, as reported in a cartouche behind an apostle, in the central one dominates a Christ of Judgment universal enclosed by a frame between floral and geometric motifs; next to the painting there is the Virgin and the Baptist on whose sides two angels play the flutes. In the apse on the left we see the Madonna enthroned, while the Baptist and the Evangelist enclose the scene. In the apse on the right, which is divided into two registers, you can admire the center of San Michele flanked by Maddalena and S. Iacopo di Compostela while, in the upper one, the Crucifixion.