San Peder

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Le château en bref

San Peder is a medieval ruined complex on a hill overlooking Sent (municipality of Scuol, Grisons): a stone tower, a large southern tower exposed by an excavation in 1937, and the remains of a Romanesque church dedicated to Saint Peter. The written sources say nothing about the complex; the mentions of people "de Sancto Petro" (1139, 1274) are not definitively linked to the site. The church, probably dating from the 12th century, was reduced to the status of a chapel by 1340; its interior was renovated and painted in the 15th century, and it was then abandoned after the Reformation. The Romansh poet Peider Lansel acquired the hill in 1856 and had the ruins consolidated in 1901; a final conservation campaign took place in 1968-1969.