Chiesa Di San Pietro
Ligurian Gothic parish church with a lacy Carrara-marble rose window above its grey stone facade.
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This guide to Chiesa Di San Pietro in Corniglia starts with wine, not stone: Boccaccio praised the village's Vernaccia in the Decameron before this church existed, and Petrarch wrote of the same terraces. It follows the Fieschi lords who funded the church in thirteen thirty-four, and the stonemasons Matteo and Pietro di Campiglio, who spent years raising its grey facade and Carrara marble rose window. Inside, a stone baptismal font predates the church itself by roughly two centuries.
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