HOSTEL SAN PIETRO IN MONTALE 🇬🇧

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️

Please not that Pontenure bridge, on the route from Piacenza to Fiorenzuola, IS CLOSED due to maintenance, from September 15th 2025 to April 15th 2026.
You need to check and choose an alternative path, for example Via San Giorgio Piacentino or Roncaglia. You can also choose to take the train from the Piacenza Station to Pontenure Station or beyond.
It is possible to take E50 bus towards Alseno which leaves from Via Colombo 142 at 6h20 – 7h35 – 8h25 – 9h25 – 10h25 – 11h25 – 12h25. Tickets on board.

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INFORMATION

ONLY FOR PILGRIMS ON THE FRANCIGENA, WITH A REGULAR CREDENTIAL ISSUED WITHIN THE CURRENT YEAR BY ACCREDITED ASSOCIATIONS
RESERVATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED

Price: a contribution to expenses of €15 per night is required

Address: Via Emilia Parmense, 189, 29122, Piacenza (PC), Italia

Contact persons: at the Parish of San Lazzaro and San Vincenzo de’ Paoli, Via Emilia Parmense, 71, 29122, Piacenza (PC), Italy
📧 info@sanlazzaropc.it
☎️ 0523 614256

The keys to the hostel can be collected in the safety deposit box next to the entrance door, by requesting the appropriate code at info@sanlazzaropc.it or by telephone.

In case of need, the keys can be collected at:
– Parrocchia S.Lazzaro, Via Emilia Parmense, 71, t. 0523 614256
– Bar Caffè Vecchia Posta, Montale, Via Emilia Parmense, 178, t. 331 8656712

Services

kitchen	yes
kettle	yes
microwave	yes
Wi-Fi	no
bike parking	yes
no sheets, please provide on your own	yes
possibility of washing clothes	yes
washing machine	yes
possibility of hanging out the clothes	yes
clothes dryer	no
pets allowed	no
circuit P.O.P ***	no

The hostel of San Pietro a Montale is open all year round. As in every hostel on the pilgrimage routes, hospitality is given to pilgrims with a regular credential that certifies the departure date and destination. There are 6 beds. The rooms, restored a few years ago, are welcoming and functional. It is completely self-managed; each pilgrim must provide for his or her own food and can use the kitchen. A regulation establishes the rules of the stay.

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HISTORY OF THE SAN PIETRO IN MONTALE HOSTEL

“San Pietro al Montale“, was a shelter for pilgrims (hospitale) who traveled on the Via Romea, or Francigena, with an attached church. Built south of the city of Piacenza, not far from the bridge over the Nure, along the ancient Via Emilia, founded around 1032 by a certain Rainerio, it was called “Hospitale dei Figli di Rainerio”. Having fallen into disrepair, it was refounded by the paratico dei Calzolai and, later, ceded to the Order of the Knights of Malta (1253). The “domus” and the church of S. Barnaba, located near the Nure river, were attached to it, with the task of maintaining the bridge over the river in good working order. In 1353, the hostel of San Pietro appears to have belonged to the Ospedale della Misericordia, in the city of Piacenza, also governed by the Order of Malta. The ancient small hospice continued its function of welcoming pilgrims, who passed along the Via Romea, until 1477, the year in which the more than 40 small hospitals existing in the city of Piacenza merged into the single Large Hospital, built in 1471. We are not able to reconstruct the architectural features of the ancient hostel of Montale. In the recent restoration of the church and the annexed house (1999), important finds were discovered, which attest to ancient structures, previously incorporated into an internal wall of the house, two brick semi-columns supporting a fragment of an arch were found.
The plaque, placed in the jubilee year 2000 in memory of the presence of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, attested from 1366, was placed by the Knights of Malta of Piacenza. The semi-columns with part of an arch extend from the floor on the ground floor to the ceiling of the first floor of the house. The columns can be dated between the 11th and 12th centuries. Fragments of decorations in the under-arch attest to the existence of an important building.