San Pietro, Romanesque church in Camaiore, Italy.

San Pietro is a Romanesque church in Camaiore built of squared stone blocks, its facade rising in three sections that match the three naves inside. The single central portal carries a marble coat of arms and a fresco of the Madonna and Child between two saints under a small roof. A square bell tower with Ghibelline merlons stands by the apse, its four sides pierced by single, double and triple windows.

The abbey is first documented in two charters of 761, during Lombard rule when the Duchy of Lucca governed Tuscany. By the early 12th century the abbot held episcopal and civil authority under the protection of the Holy See, and a donation by Countess Matilda of Canossa helped fund the rebuilding that added two side aisles, a pediment and an apse. In the first half of the 13th century the monastery passed to the Florense order founded by Gioacchino da Fiore. It was sacked and burned with the town of Camaiore in 1315 by Castruccio Antelminelli and again in 1329 by Marco Visconti.

The abbey's name, San Pietro, refers to Saint Peter; the complex was documented from 761, when the Duchy of Lucca was the Lombard capital of Tuscany. Inside, the first pillar on the left carries a 14th-century fresco of Saint Mary of Egypt, and the second a Madonna della Pietà set in a Baroque marble altar. The wooden ambo is carved, and a painted Crucifix hangs above the modern main altar.

The building is easy to reach and sits near the town center of Camaiore, with ample space around it for exploration. A cemetery and outbuildings are part of the grounds and can be explored during your visit.

The entrance arch is the only surviving remnant of the 13th-century battlemented walls that once enclosed the abbey, and it was the complex's main access. The square bell tower carries Ghibelline merlons and three orders of openings on each side: single, double and triple lancets. Its four bells, tuned in G minor, were cast by the Lucchese founder Lorenzo Lera.