Monte San Pietro
Monte San Pietro is a town with 10,844 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) in the province of Bologna. Center of the municipality is the village of the same name, although the most populated industrial town Calderino is.
Municipality
The community has a wide area, which includes the middle and high catchment area of the water stream Lavino. Because of its distribution and morphological Vielfält a strong heterogeneity in the socio- economic development of all communities present has taken place. In Calderino all social, political, official and partly industrial activities have now been contracted apply during historically significant towns such as Gavignano or Vignola dei Conti forgotten today as almost.
Attractions
Monte San Pietro offers a total of a remarkable number of ancient testimonies. In the village Amola one of the delicious jewels of Bolognese art is to be found: the Via Crucis ( Way of the Cross = ) by Mauro Gandolfi, in the parish church from the XVII. Century is kept at Amola di Monte. In Monte San Giovanni church, the villa and the Castagneto ( = chestnut grove ) a visit worth.
Worth seeing is the private monastery of Badia today (it. for Abbey ), which was an important node point in the Via Nonantolana in the early Middle Ages.
In Mongiorgio can see the ruins of an ancient castle visit (X. -. XI century), inside of which the Church of S.Sigmund and S.Peter from the XVII. Century building.
In Via Lavino, towards Montepastore you pull through by Gavignano, an old farming village with church and tower. In San Chierlo you can look at the Torre del Paleotto ( = tower from Paleotto ).
Noteworthy in the end of XV. Renovated century Romanesque church, the altarpiece.
On the floor of San Lorenzo in Collina you can admire the privately owned Madonna del Castello di Capromazza, a polychrome wooden sculpture from XV once a year. Century.
Worth seeing is finally the church of San Martino in Casola, the religious institutions and objects from the XVII. - XVIII. Century preserved.
In the church of " Monte San Giovanni " there was an organ dating from the XVI century