The Pieve di Vigatto (from “Vicus Catuli”, reference to the Roman leaders of the territory who fought the Cimbri), dedicated to St. Peter, finds its first mention in the document “Ordo Archipresbiteroum Piebium” of 1005. Outside the facade is marked by two orders of pilasters and robust trabeations of classicist taste. In the lower part, the central and lateral portal are framed in fields delimited by six pilasters.

The upper part, ending with a triangular tympanum, is marked by four pilasters that frame a large rectangular window. At each end there is a truncated pyramidal spire. The bell tower, with a square plan, stands on the north side in line with the facade and has Romanesque mirrors in the lower part, while the upper part was rebuilt in 1779-1780.

The interior has a single nave with three side chapels on each side and a flat apse surmounted by a fake dome and has two niches, one on each side. The nave has a lunette vaulted roof. Only in the counter-façade, in the apse and on the right side of the nave, in the upper part, there are rectangular windows that offer a poor and uneven illumination of the interior as the north side of the church are leaned against the bell tower and the house of the bell maker.

The parish church was restored in 1834 and two years later, the mosaic floor inside was rebuilt. It is said that this church was originally among the first outposts for the spread of Christianity among the populations of the countryside of the surrounding area.

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Plain parish churches
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strada Martinella, 279
43124 Vigatto