ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO “CARLOTTA ASCHIERI”
San Pietro in Cariano (VR)
CHURCHES AND BELLTOWERS
OF THE ROMANESQUE VALPOLICELLA
The class 2e partecipated in the competition “Vivi la Valpolicella” working on the romanesque bell-towers and churches of the Valpolicella.
The booklet comprehend a short description and photos of the buildings examined.
ST. MARTIN’S (Corrubbio)
In spite of its small size, Saint Martin’s at Corrubbio is certainly one of the most interesting examples of Romanesque architecture in the area of Verone. The building has one nave with wooden trusses.
The little church still keeps, almost untouched, the original wall structure and façade, with its lively polychromy.
On the walls there are many interesting frescoes of the 13th and 14th centuries: they testify to the importance this church had during the Middle Ages.
THE OLDCHURCH (Torbe)
It is a three-aisle building, which suffered heavy reshapings. Of the Romanesque church you can still appreciate the apse and a part of the bell tower.
The front, divided into three, has the central part projecting on the two side parts.
ST. MARTIN’S (Negrar)
The Romanesque (twelfth century) bell tower is both beautiful and majestic and built with tuff with a number of red brick rows. The belfry has a two-lighted mullion windows on each side.
ST. FLORIAN’S (San Floriano)
Its present shape dates back to 1120-1130 A.D.; it was built on the ruins of a pagan temple and cemetery destroyed by an earthquake.
The façade, in local limestone, is divided into three parts. The portal is enrich by a hanging protiro. On the right side of the church you can admire a nice arcade and cloister of the 17th century.
The bell tower was built on the ruins of a fortification of the 7th century A.D. While the base is stone, containing many re-employed Roman pieces, the tower itself unfolds as a series of alternating tuff ashlars and brickwork to finish with brickwork alone for the belfry that is opened by two-lighted mullioned windows with small stone columns.
ST. GEORGE’S (San Giorgio “Ingannapoltron”)
St: George’s is the jewel of Valpolicella and one of the most important Romanesque buildings of Verone province. Material from earlier Roman structures was re-used in the building of the Christian edifice, both in Longobard times, when it was probably founded, and during the Romanesque period, when it was partially reconstructed after the earthquake of 1117. On the western side the church has a tall apse, which includes a portal; on the eastern side there are three apses, where the altars are.
ST. MARK’S (Valgatara)
It is a simple one-nave building, with wooden trusses. On the northern side of the little church there is a tall bell tower.
ST. MICHAEL’S (Arcé)
It is a little one-nave building, with a simple façade and a little portal. The windows date back to the 17th century.
The walls show a quite archaic structure, typical of the oldest Romanesque examples in the area of Verona.
SAN VITO’S (Negrar)
This bell tower stands alone in a courtyard; it is the only left part of an ancient church, mentioned for the first time in 1189.
ST. ZENO IN PUIA’S (Sant’Ambrogio di Valpolicella)
The church is built with pink marble ashlars. It has a simple façade with a rectangular portal, surmounted by a lunette.
The interior of the one-nave church was rearranged in the 18th century.