San Pietro, Gubbio

In a documents regarding Gubbio from 1163, emperor Barbarossa mentions an Offredo, the Ghibelline abbot of the monastery of St Peter.

[1] 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 them with the monks from the Olivetan monastery of San Benedetto fuori della mura.

Along the exterior, slender vertical buttresses protrude from the walls of the church, including at the polygonal apse.

The first altarpiece on the left upon entering the church depicts a Sant'Ubaldo by Bernardino Brozzi; the second, a St Sebastian by Virgilio Nucci;[3] the third, a St Michael Archangel commissioned by the Franciarini family from the painter Francesco Allegrini; the fourth, a Ste Geltrude by Giovanni Odazzi; and the 5th, a Santa Francesca Romana with frescoes also by Nucci.

Facade of the church of San Pietro
Aerial view of monastery (left) and church (right) with the belltower rising at the corner between the crossing and the apse of the church.