Churches in the center of Belluno.

Beata Maria Vergine della Salute Church

In the historic center of the city of Belluno, on the edge of Piazza delle Erbe, right next to the Monte di Pietà, the seventeenth-century church dedicated to the Blessed Virgin of Health appears hidden from the porch. Inside there is an altar, a wooden altarpiece and wooden angels made by the artist Brustolon. They…

Loreto Church

Built between 1612 and 1641 on a design of the capuchin friar Andrea da Venezia, to complete the annex Clarisse’s cloister, started by the bishop Alvise Lollino (1597-1625) and finished by the bishop Tommaso Mallonio (1634-1649). On top of the side portal are still fixed the coat of arms of the Franciscan order, of bishop…

Saint Rocco Church

In 1530 the building was started as a votive church against the plague, than slowly continued and finally completed in 1561, as testified by the coat of arms of the venetian governor Giacomo Salomon (1559) on the left column and of Pietro Loredan (1561) under the statue of St. Roch on the façade. Used by…

Serviti Cloister

The cloister was first build in 1463, probably by the same stone carvers from northern Lombardy who built the old cloister inside the Gregorian Seminary, then the Franciscan monastery of St. Peter, The building was created to host a community of monks belonging to the Servite Order, the promoters in 1503 of the first public…

Saint Stephen Church

Built between 1468 and 1491 by stone carvers arriving from Como for the Serviti Order, on the site where there was already an ancient church: on the left wall of the building is fixed a mourning inscription written in early Italian (the so called “volgare”) in 1349. Inside there is the Cesa chapel, started in…

Saint Biagio Church

It is probably the first church of the Christian community of Belluno, built in the old roman burial ground outside the city wall, along the road – now via Rivizzola – leading to the old bridge over the Ardo river and to Cadore. It was located outside the ancient urban boundaries, so it probably is…

San Pietro Church

Built by the Franciscan friars in 1326, one century after their first arrival in Belluno. The original church was weakened by an earthquake in 1709, and required an heavy intervention: it was demolished and completely rebuilt in 1750, following a project by the Franciscan friar Ludovico Pagani, moving backwards the façade, as we can still…

Gregoriano Seminary

Built at first as a Franciscan monastery, for a community recorded in Belluno since the XIII century. The construction was later completely rebuilt beside the nearby church of St Peter, erected in 1326, and again thoroughly readapted in 1750. Inside the best testimony of the architectural evolution of the complex are the two cloisters: the…

S.Maria dei Battuti Church

Sacred building, simple and essential, started at the beginning of XIV century for the Flagellants “Scuola” or Confraternity, whose first record in Belluno is dated back to 1260 and which was formally created with a statute and a register of the brethren’s names in 1310. Two inscriptions written in gothic characters remember the rising of…

S.Nicolò Church

Spiritual center of the Borgo Piave community, dedicated to St. Nicholas patron of the “zattieri” (the timber rafts punters) who transported wood and goods along the river from Cadore to Venice. A first building was erected in 1361, then rebuilt in 1547 as recorded by an inscription engraved on the architrave of the church, then…