Chiesa di San Petronio

Beautiful church. Take care of the functions at all times.

Questa chiesa è molto bella dall'esterno, non ho potuto entrare perche faceva molto caldo e non ero vestita per visitare la chiesa, ma proverò a visitarla, situata nella città di Castel Bolognese, Emilia Romagna, Italia This church is very beautiful from the outside, I could not go inside, because it was very hot and I was not dressed to visit the church, but I will try to visit it by all means, located in the city of Castel Bolognese, Emilia Romagna, Italia

There is news for the first time in 1396. The land on which the church was built belonged to the parish church of Campiano and it is not known for certain whether S. Petronio depended on this parish or directly from the Curia of Imola. The first church was placed where today is the third chapel (the one dedicated to St. Catherine), then it was rebuilt in 1428, more spacious. Ten years after it was built the bell tower. The church had trusses, with eight side chapels and five windows. The façade of the church faced west and was restored in 1616, coloring it red, while the door had the image of St. Petronius on it; the altar was originally at the bottom of the chorus, but in 1574 was moved to the center of the main chapel; in the same year the tabernacle was built, placed above the high altar. In 1592, thanks to a donation card. Ginnasi, a column taken from the church of S. Michele in Monte S. Angelo (on the Gargano) was brought to S. Petronio: it was placed in a niche on the side of the main altar and then, from 1653, in the second altar of the nave left. The old bell tower, southeast of the church, built in 1438, was about 35 m high and had three bells. It suffered various damages due to the earthquake of 4 April 1781; rebuilt on its original style, the whole bell fell 24 December 1944 under the granate.S. Petronio was solemnly consecrated on March 2, 1788 by Cardinal Chiaramonti. The facade of the Doric order has three entrance doors, two windows that give light to the side aisles and a lunette that illuminates the central one; the interior of the church has three naves divided by twin Ionic columns and is covered by the large barrel vault with false coffered ceilings, this work by Alessandro Della Nave and Antonio Villa. The church measures 44 m long and 24 m wide; It has seven altars, one major and six side. The first altar on the right is dedicated to St. Andrew Avellino and has a statue of St. Therese of Lisieux; in the second we find a beautiful Madonna and Child, late Gothic fresco reworked in the nineteenth century. Below, a statue of the Infant Jesus, covered with a precious 18th century dress; in the third chapel statue of St. Jerome by Alfonso Lombardi and statue of St. John the Baptist by Ottavio Toselli. The main altar is of scagliola and was rebuilt in 1867; at the end of the choir there is a statuary group in polychrome terracotta by Alfonso Lombardi (Crucifix with the Magdalene at the foot and to the sides the Virgin of Sorrows and St. John the Evangelist, 16th century). On the coping, within an oval, it is depicted S. Petronio, the work of Felice Giani. On the sides of the valuable high altar there is an organ and San Petronio protector of Bologna and Castel Bolognese, a painting by Angelo Gottarelli (1740-1813). Between two columns of the central nave is the statue of San Petronio, a copy of the original 13th century wooden preserved in S. Petronio in Bologna, donated by the Bolognese to Pius IX and from these to Castel Bolognese. In the left aisle is the baptismal font , while the first chapel presents the Visitation of the Virgin to St. Elizabeth and, to the side, St. Jerome and St. Lawrence all works by Alfonso Cittadella known as Lombardi. In the second one there is an altarpiece depicting Saints Emidio and Domenico with a holy martyr, work attributed to Benedetto dal Buono, while in a window we find the Madonna del Rosario, a late-gothic representation attributed to Giovanni da Riolo (late 15th century). In the last chapel is St. Michael the Archangel, the framework of the XVII century by Francesco Longhi. The nave is closed by the winter chapel or by the Madonna of Lourdes, a reproduction of the French cave created in 1933 with boulders extracted from the vein of the plaster of Casola Valsenio. The sacristy is located to the east of the bell tower and also preserves a large cabinet carved in walnut of the century. . XVIII and other valuable paintings. Considerable also the parish works that have been enriched also recovering the appropriately restored basement.

was the first church built in Castel Bolognese, built directly by the Bolognese in the late fourteenth century. The church was completely rebuilt in 1427. In 1781 it was damaged by an earthquake. The community decided to rebuild it. The new church, in neoclassical style, was built to a design by the Imola-born architect Cosimo Morelli. Completed in 1787, the sacred building was consecrated the following year. The most significant works of art preserved inside are the "San Petronio", the sixteenth-century sculptures and the altarpiece, a fresco by Giovanni da Riolo and finally a painting of the Innocenzo da Imola school.

From the outside it passes almost unnoticed but inside I find it really beautiful, large columns with Ionic-style capitals (my favorites), statues of saints made very well and paintings, but the TOP part is certainly the small room hidden with the statue by the lighted crown and the background of the blue cave representing the Madonna of Lourdes and alongside Bernadette Soubirous with a candle in hand.