Comune di Cento (FE)

There are two churches in Corso Guercino of great historical importance now used to host art exhibitions and concerts:

San Lorenzo (1765-1773), whose concave facade, set up on two orders, is the backdrop for the piazza before it, was the church of the Jesuits. Inside, the high altar hosts "The martyrdom of St. Lawrence", a copy of a work by Guercino.
The Baroque church of San Lorenzo was designed by Cento architect P.A. Cavalieri.
The brightly lit interior of the church of San Lorenzo has a single nave with a dome over the transept and a presbytery with protruding
columns.

Partially wheelchair accessible. Accessible with accompaniment.

San Filippo Neri, was built in 1680 and expanded later on. The interior is dominated by the marble decoration of the high altar, produced in 1753-54 to a design by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena.

Not wheelchair accessible.

San Pietro
One of the oldest churches in Cento (fourteenth century), it has been heavily remodelled, especially in the mid-nineteenth century, and preserves numerous canvases by seventeenth century artists from the schools of Carracci: (Lucio Massari, "Crucifixion and Saints") and Guercino (Benedetto Zallone, "Assumption with Saints Bonaventure, Frances and donor" and Matteo Loves, "Madonna with Child, Saints and Guardian Angel").

Partially wheelchair accessible. Accessible with accompaniment.

Image description: "The Madonna of St. Luke and Saints Gregory the Great, Paul, Anthony the Abbot and Sebastian" by Benedetto Zallone (about 1620) in the Church of San Pietro.

San Sebastiano and San Rocco
Built in 1552, it was renovated and expanded between 1764 and 1770 by architect P. A. Cavalieri. The facade features a loggia which allows the building to fit perfectly into the porticaded sequence along the road. The interior houses such precious canvases as Matteo Loves "Guardian angel" and Orazio Lamberti's "The Crucifixion of Saint Roche and Saint Sebastian" (1578-80), as well as a cycle of frescoes by M. Cremonini (1603) in the oratory.

Partially wheelchair accessible. Accessible with accompaniment.

Image description: Matteo Loves' "Guardian Angel" in the church of S. Rocco and S. Sebastiano.