Crypt and Church of Colle San Paolo

Crypt and Church of Colle San Paolo

Church Historical place

The church of SS. Pietro and Paolo is an ancient Benedictine settlement. Its suggestive crypt, dated around the 10th century, is considered one of the oldest in Umbria.
Only the back wall of the Romanesque church has been preserved. In 1868, the interior was reduced to a single nave and the facade rebuilt in neo-Romanesque style. One of the altars houses a copy of a Madonna and Child by an imitator of Perugino; the original work, dated 1515, is kept in the Museum of the Cathedral of Perugia.

Going down the steep steps, you enter the crypt, finding yourself immersed in an august past full of precious testimonies. Originally, it was a single room covered by cross vaults supported by four pillars with bare elements, including a capital obtained from a cinerary urn with a Latin inscription. Following the nineteenth-century restoration of the church, the crypt was divided by three partitions connected by narrow openings. In the central room there is an altar with a stone decorated with Romanesque reliefs.

Via Cristoforo Colombo, 5
Loc. Colle San Paolo
Panicale