Saint Peter and Paul [
XVI secolo ]
Story of the church
The church of saint Peter and Paul became mother church of the town in 1607, when the inhabitants of Spezzano went up towards this church . Probably its origin is Byzanthine . In 1688 it passed from the Greek rhyte to the Byzanthine one . On March 4th 1668 archpriest Magnocavallo celebrated the first Mass according to the new rhyte. The church was the former see of secular congregations , then in 1825 it became “Collegiata Insigne”. Inside there are some frescoes, among which “The expulsion of the merchants from the temple”, probably painted by Francesco Saverio Ricci from Terranova , a wooden choir, a painting with Saints Peter and Paul, a tondo with Our lady of Sorrows , a painting with Purgatory , all dating to the XVIII c. and a fresco of the beginning of the XX century , about the miracles and the apotheosis of Saint Francis from Paola, painted by Umberto De Maria.
Other churches in the town of
Spezzano Albanese
