Church of San Pietro e Paolo

Cultural religious site

It is the oldest church in Bovino, dating back to the century. XIII. Built on the ruins of an ancient pagan temple, dedicated to Hercules in Roman times, it was built, in 1099, by Bishop Gisone I, as the inscription on a block, originally the architrave of the main door, currently under the threshold of same. Over the centuries it has undergone several transformations that have changed its original appearance. In the Baroque age it was completely transformed, demolishing the colonnades and reduced to a single hall. At present, the church has a longitudinal plan and consists of a single nave, with leftovers of granite columns of the classical era and sculpted capitals, a cubic-prismatic one, with foliage decoration, the other of Corinthian imitation. On the back wall, there are three semicircular apses, typical of the basilical churches. It has two entrances, of which, the secondary one, is enriched by two granite columns from a distant era. Inside the church, where the prestigious documents of antiquity and primitive beauty are clearly read, one can admire in particular the baptismal font, represented by a large hemispherical stone basin resting on a decorated Byzantine style base.

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