Nadur - Sts Peter and Paul Church
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This church was begun in 1760 and designed by Guiseppe Bonnici. The wide robust and symmetrical building took 20 years to complete. The facade, and the dome with stained-glass windows were added in the mid-19th C.
The interior is splendidly ornate with extravagant marble inlaid floors, walls and pillars. Around the turn of the century, the Maltese painter Lazzaro Pisani painted 150 canvases to be attached to the vaulted ceiling; the images and the stories told are the liveliest of many such ecclesiastical works on the islands.
In the right-hand aisle is a twinned processional statue of the saints, made in 1881 in Marseille. Also on the right, in the transept is the macabre skeleton of St Coronatus, brought here intact along with a cup of his blood soon after he was martyred in A.D. 100. His skeleton is now clothed.
The interior is splendidly ornate with extravagant marble inlaid floors, walls and pillars. Around the turn of the century, the Maltese painter Lazzaro Pisani painted 150 canvases to be attached to the vaulted ceiling; the images and the stories told are the liveliest of many such ecclesiastical works on the islands.
In the right-hand aisle is a twinned processional statue of the saints, made in 1881 in Marseille. Also on the right, in the transept is the macabre skeleton of St Coronatus, brought here intact along with a cup of his blood soon after he was martyred in A.D. 100. His skeleton is now clothed.
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