Built next to the cemetery, in an isolated place and overlooking Lake Como, the Santa Margherita complex consists of: church, bell tower and sacristy. The first, probably from the Romanesque period, underwent numerous alterations over the centuries which led to its current configuration: divided into three naves and with a presbytery which ends in a polygonal apse which preserves three seventeenth-century paintings. The statue of Santa Margherita, patron saint of Pigra, is preserved in a niche at the end of the right nave where it is also possible to admire a scagliola frontal attributed to Andrea Solari; always on the right are the bell tower and the sacristy. The façade of the church, gabled, with lateral wings, has a prothyrum with serizzo columns covered by a frescoed sail. The façades and the bell tower are plastered and painted. Santa Margherita is celebrated on 20 July: at the time it was tradition to set up a large bonfire that illuminated the whole town but today this custom has been lost for safety reasons while it is still common on this occasion to carry the statue of the patron saint in procession along the streets of Pigra. Construction period: 1800.
More information on the PIGRA FRIENDS ASSOCIATION (see “9- Santa Margherita”: http://www.aapigra.it/aap/pigra-da-scoprire
