San Pietro, Gubbio
San Pietro is an ancient Roman Catholic church and former monastery located on piazza San Pietro in central Gubbio, region of Umbria, in Italy. The church which displays architectural elements from many centuries, from Romanesque architecture, Romanesque to the Renaissance architecture, Renaissance, as well as housing prominent artworks; the monastery now houses the civic Biblioteca Comunale Sperelliana. History Some traditions hold that the church at this site was present from the 8th century, but documents only affirm that by the 11th century, a prominent church and Benedictine order, Benedictine monastery were functioning. In a documents regarding Gubbio from 1163, Frederick Barbarossa, emperor Barbarossa mentions an ''Offredo'', the Ghibelline abbot of the monastery of St Peter. The monastery was initially linked to the Abbey at Monte Cassino, and by the 12th-century appeared to be the second largest church in town. In 1521, pope Leo X expelled the Benedictines and replaced t ...
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