San Pietro in Vidiciatico is a

Roman Catholic Roman or Romans most often refers to: *Rome, the capital city of Italy *Ancient Rome, Roman civilization from 8th century BC to 5th century AD *Roman people, the people of ancient Rome *''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...

parish church located in the neighborhood of Vidiciatico, which belongs to the township of

Lizzano in Belvedere Lizzano in Belvedere ( High Mountain Bolognese: ; City Bolognese: ) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Bologna in the Italian region Emilia-Romagna, located about southwest of Bologna. Among the parishes is the church of ...

in the

Province of Bologna The province of Bologna ( it, provincia di Bologna) was a province in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. Its provincial capital was the city of Bologna. The province of Bologna covered an area of and had a total population of 1,004,323 inhabitan ...

, Italy. The present church was erected in the 1882–1884, to replace a Romanesque-style church built in 1393. Of the old church only the apse portion remains with a mullioned window. The adjacent square bell-tower was built at a site that likely was part of an ancient castle tower. The interior houses an altarpiece by Antonio Crespi, son of the more famous

Giuseppe Crespi Giuseppe Maria Crespi (March 14, 1665 – July 16, 1747), nicknamed Lo Spagnuolo ("The Spaniard"), was an Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. His eclectic output includes religious paintings and portraits, but he is now most ...

, depicting ''Jesus granting St Peter the Keys of his Church''. Nearby is the Oratory of San Rocco, built in 1631 after the ebbing of the black plague.Commune of Lizzano
entry on Vidiciatico.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pietro Vidiciatico Churches in the province of Bologna 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy