The town of Badia Petroia is dominated by the church of Santa Maria and Sant’Egidio, which originally belonged to a Benedictine abbey complex, mentioned for the first time in a document from 972.
Ugo, founder of the Abbey of Petroia, belonged to the family of the Marquises of Colle, from which the Bourbon del Monte branch originated.
Their protection on the monastery lasted for a long time, however it did not last beyond the fifteenth century, in fact in 1403 the religious complex was no longer under the protection of the marquises, but under that of Città di Castello.
The Petroia Abbey represents one of the most important Romanesque buildings in the region, despite the ecclesiastical events that involved it and the disruptions caused by the frequent earthquakes have left their mark, at an architectural level, in the numerous adaptation interventions and in the progressive reduction of the spaces that have distorted the original appearance.
Abbey of Badia Petroia
Address: Via Sant' Egidio, 06012, Badia Petroia
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Lorenzo Rometti