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Chiesa dei Santi Nazaro e Celso
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It was built in the fifteenth century (1464-1483) by the Benedictine monks, was present when one of their monasteries and the remains of an ancient cave-church dedicated to Saints Nazario, Giuliana and Celso, which had been dug out of the mountain above Scaglione. From the public highway leads to the churchyard crossing a monumental portal stone building, built in the second half of the seventeenth century by the architect Antonio Saletti inspired by the classical models: two pairs of Ionic columns enclosed by fluttering draperies, topped by a heavy eardrum. The facade is very exciting and it seems pervaded by uncertainty stylistic patterns that re-Romanesque-Gothic, uniting with Renaissance elements. And 'sober and slender, made of terra-cotta bricks, decorated with pinnacles, large windows and frames trefoil arches. It has a majestic central rose window and a Gothic portal with a pointed arch, in whose bezel is a fresco (Madonna with Saints Nazario and Celso) painted by Paul Ligozzi. Elegant is instead the sixteenth-century bell tower, clearly inspired by Venetian models.
It was built in the fifteenth century (1464-1483) by the Benedictine monks, was present when one of their monasteries and the remains of an ancient cave-church dedicated to Saints Nazario, Giuliana and Celso, which had been dug out of the mountain above Scaglione. From the public highway leads to th…
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Lokalità
Verona, Veneto