Duomo dei Santi Pietro ed Eliseo, Catholic church in Montegrotto Terme, Italy
The Duomo dei Santi Pietro ed Eliseo is a brick church with a three-nave interior, built from 1949 to 1954. Its facade is divided by stone pilasters into two registers: the lower has a large portal with a painted lunette and four pointed niches, the upper a central three-light window and two two-light windows. Inside, Ionic columns support pointed arches and a coffered ceiling.
A Roman-era building stood on the hill before the church. The old three-nave parish church was crumbling, so in 1721 a single-nave Baroque church dedicated to Saints Peter and Elisha was begun, finished in 1724 and blessed in 1777 by Bishop Nicolò Antonio Giustiniani, incorporating the earlier bell tower. After the thermal centre opened and the population grew, the first stone of the new church was laid on 17 May 1949; it was completed and opened for worship on 20 November 1954, and consecrated on 20 June 1963 by Bishop Girolamo Bartolomeo Bortignon.
The church is also known as the Duomo, a title it holds as the parish church of Montegrotto Terme in the diocese of Padua. The 20th-century frescoes inside show the Madonna della Misericordia sheltering the faithful under her mantle and the Primacy of Peter, the two works the source singles out as the most valuable kept here.
The building is open during regular mass times and offers additional services during Christmas and Easter periods. Visitors should plan their visit around service schedules to see the interior, as the church serves both local residents and guests visiting the thermal baths nearby.
The 1949 cornerstone was laid only after World War II, and the church opened on 20 November 1954; Bishop Girolamo Bartolomeo Bortignon consecrated it on 20 June 1963. The 18th-century arcipretale it replaced, built from 1721 and completed in 1724, had absorbed the bell tower of the earlier pieve.
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