ST. PETER CHURCH
Built in 1659 it is
incorporated in the monastery founded in 1519 by Bishop Giovanni
Antonio de Rogeris on an area granted by Ostuni’s feudal
Isabella d’Aragona after the expansion of the Angevin walls. It
takes more splendor in 1700 with the addition, inside, of
plasters and baroque altars designed by architect Carlo Casini.
The façade
of the church with the one of the convent, are built in local
untreated stone. The decorative furniture of the church is
enriched by the major altar with the eighteenth shovel of the
Virgin in Glory with St. Peter and St. Benedict and the
founders; the minor altars shows the 18th century
canvas of St. Martino donating his mantle to a poor man, by
Francesco Solimena, the 17th century high-relief of
the Virgin of Loreto, St. Peter and St. Benedict; the canvas of
the coronation of the Virgin with the Saints Benedict, Carlo
Borromeo and Oronzo.