Chiesa dei Santi Pietro e Paolo (San Pietro di Barbozza)

In the vineyard amphitheatre below Monte Cesen, the parish church of Saints Peter and Paul anchors the hamlet of San Pietro di Barbozza. The parish includes four small oratories among the surrounding vineyards.

Why it matters

San Pietro di Barbozza is a village in the Prosecco hills, and the church is its parish centre. The Diocese of Padua records the parish as S. Pietro di Barbozza Santi Pietro e Paolo, within the pastoral grouping covering Valdobbiadene.

What to notice

Wooden sculptures created during local VignArte symposia stand among the surrounding vines. The parish territory includes oratories of San Giovanni Battista, Sant'Alberto, Saints Vittore e Corona and San Gottardo. Vineyard walls begin near the churchyard, part of the terraced landscape recognized as a World Heritage property.

Context and history

The Diocese of Padua places the parish within the Collaborazione Pastorale La Piave, alongside neighbouring parishes of the upper Piave area. The parish is associated with the oratories scattered through the vineyards, including the old hermitage chapel of Sant'Alberto above the village. The landscape the parish tends is the one the World Heritage citation describes: vineyards held on the ciglioni, the grassy terraces that follow the contours and steady the soil on these slopes, under a training system the local farmers perfected for the terrain. In recent decades, walking networks and wine itineraries have been established in the surrounding hills.