High Altar

Detail of the High Altar

The portal is surmounted by a balustrade covered with marble with texts of cherubs and scrolls for decoration.

There are two chapels, covered with barrel vaults, minutes of stepped altars always covered with marble and decorated with stucco.

The left altar is enriched by the telante S. Teresa of Avila and saints by the artist Carlo Ferrazzano, where the saint standing at the cross is pierced by an arrow held by an angel with red wings.

On the right altar is placed the picture Virgin with child, angels and four saints, in the lower right is St. Ignatius of Loyola, a bearded man with a lily and dressed in black and white, in bottom left probably S. Nicola, with an episcopal dress and a miter at his feet, in the lower center a noble coat of arms.

The presbytery is covered with barrel vaults and is separated by a polychrome marble balustrade.

On the right we find the entrance to the bell tower, while on the left the one to the sacristy.

On the sides of the barrel vault we have two lunettes that frame two windows decorated at the top by heads of cherubs.

On the main altar, made with polychrome marble and stucco, we find the canvas depicting the Madonna del Carmelo and next to it a saint in monastic robes with a lily. Bottom left St. Peter with the keys, right St. Jerome with the lion, painting restored in 2016.

The dome stands in the center of the Greek cross, with a round dome, surmounted by a blind lantern. The bell tower instead rises on the tower of the ancient walls.

The church has been renovated in recent years.

Interior San Pietro