St. Peter near Laion
St. Peter in 1845. Oil painting by Josef Arnold the Younger
St. Peter ( Italian San Pietro ) is a fraction of the municipality of Laion in the lower Val Gardena in South Tyrol ( Italy ).
The small center is located on a slope on the orographic right side of the valley at an altitude of 1200 m . A little further into the valley there is a second small settlement center, called St. Peter im Tal , at around 950 m on the Grödner Bach valley . St. Peter forms its own small village community, hikers and skiers use the village as a holiday home, as it is in the immediate vicinity of a skiing and hiking area in the Dolomites .
Worth seeing
- The parish church of St. Peter with the baroque altars partly from the Vinazer workshop around 1730–1750, with statues by the sculptor Franz Tavella in 1885 and with frescoes by the painter Josef Arnold (1788–1879) with his sons Josef and Alois in 1845.
- In the cemetery chapel, the altar of Mary , reredos with Mary and child from the 16th century, based on a model by Giovanni Bellini , on a Baroque plinth with poor souls , by an unknown artist.
Individual evidence
- ^ Nicolò Rasmo : Gli scultori Vinazer: origini dell'attività scultorea in Val Gardena . Ortisei. Museo della Val Gardena. 1989. 303 pages (mostly illustrations - with catalog raisonné).
- ^ Leo Andergassen : Renaissance altars and epitaphs in Tyrol (Schlern-Schriften 325), Wagner University Press, Innsbruck 2007. ISBN 978-3-7030-0417-9
Web links
Commons : St. Peter - collection of images, videos and audio files
Coordinates: 46 ° 36 ' N , 11 ° 37' E